Being Heard is Finding Home It was an intense week at the homeless agency. One person after another came into the small chapel to talk. One delightfully flamboyant gay man spoke with his hands so quickly I had a hard time understanding and following his thoughts. Another, in his 30s, younger than the first, originally […]
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7, September, 2026, Recalibration
Settlement of Refugees Another article popped up in my feed about Our Loneliness Epidemic. Long before the 2020 pandemic, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy raised the alarm of an ongoing loneliness epidemic in 2015. A long list of causes – insufficient time with family, social technology, living in an individualistic society, overworked, no religious […]
17, August, 2026, Recalibration
Finding the Sacred in All of Life In her book A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary, Macrina Wiederkehr says: “You live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in […]