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This I Believe…
by Tefi Ma’ake One of the best gifts I received when I finished grad school was a book called This I Believe, based off of the NPR program (and 1950’s radio broadcast) of the same name. In the book and...
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Pray for Us
by Jessica Coblentz I had forgotten the Litany of the Saints. When I heard the familiar melody at the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago—I realized I had forgotten all about it. It was a strange oversight. I...
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Speaking of Silence
By Rebecca Lynne Fullan When I arrived at Harvard Divinity School in the fall of ’06, there was a lot of buzz about the documentary Into Great Silence, which followed the lives of Carthusian monks in...
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Greenday, Breakup Songs, and Redemption
by Kate Henley Averett My sister and I were in the car, probably on our way to some family function or another, listening to Anna Nalick’s album “Wreck of the Day” when the title track came on. “I wish...
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Moving
by Rebecca Curtin This past month I moved…again. Over the past ten years I have moved eleven times. Virtually every year for the last decade I have packed up all my things and moved across town or...
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Baptism
by Kate Dugan I have been thinking a lot about one of the moments in From the Pews in the Back when Eileen Markey writes about deciding what sort of spiritual/religious lineage to raise her son in. She...
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Misunderstood
by Rebecca Curtin I’m just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood –Nina Simone Sometimes I feel, as a Catholic who regularly expresses dissatisfaction and...
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The Glow, The Dance, The Dark of the Sea
by Rebecca Lynne Fullan Sometimes my life gets humid. The air all full and heavy, and I can’t even feel the water that’s weighing it down, but I know it’s there, making it hard to push through. About a...
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Our Village
By Johanna Hatch One of the first cards we received upon announcing my pregnancy was from a friend-couple who simply wrote, “Thank you for letting us be part of your village.” Sometimes I wonder if the...
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To Church Hunt or Not to Church Hunt?
Model of Bethel Lutheran Church, Avoca, TX By Kate Henley Averett Ever since we decided to move to Austin, I’ve had this nagging question at the back of my mind – should I look for a church there? And...
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