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By Kathleen Billings My family and I recently moved from our home of fifteen years in Illinois to a mini-farm in South Carolina. We left behind our small established family vineyard of 53 vines, [...]

By Emily Cavins   I recall our goddaughter, Mary, bouncing excitedly up to us several weeks after her First Communion, to announce she had just received her fifth Communion. She was counting [...]

By Emily Cavins   Who would have thought that I would have been handed a three-month (and counting) sabbatical? Most often, when someone is offered the luxury of time off, a lot of planning [...]

By Dianne Davis I’m writing this just a couple of weeks into the Coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. I live in New York, where we have the highest outbreak in the Nation. We were one of the first [...]

By: Caralyn   Well, here we are. I’m going to be honest; it’s incredibly strange to be writing this article today: on April 13, trying to imagine where we’ll be a month from now, on May 13 — [...]

By Hilary Scheppers Hopping the fence is the wrong way to enter the swimming pool, wouldn’t you agree? But I did enter it that way once before. I climbed over the chain-link fence and dropped [...]

By Hilary Scheppers The Gospel Today “It is my Father’s will that whoever sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and that I should raise that person up on the last [...]

By Marge Fenelon I’ve often said, “There’s nothing as beautiful as a Spirit-filled woman.” There’s something about the way she carries herself and relates to others that allows me to spot her [...]

By Lori Ubowski   Three days after Easter and I’ve secretly raided each of my kids’ Easter baskets at least five times a day (my will power crumbles at the sight of Reese’s [...]

By Carol Younger Reading the Easter Gospel Scripture, the first thing that I saw was many repetitions of the word saw. Very early, in the garden shrouded in darkness before full daybreak, Mary of [...]