Psalm 8 recounts one of scripture’s most familiar contrasts. Two ideas cannot be separated: When human beings consider our place in the universe, we are nothing. Psalm 78:39 echoes the sentiment...

Our children and grandchildren live in the four corners of the United States. In the summer of 2020, in a hedge against COVID-induced family separation, we bought a used red truck...

The campground near our Wisconsin cabin is deserted in the winter, but it begins to populate in mid-May. By Memorial Day weekend, people camp by the cool, tannin-colored water. They unfold...

Usually we think of wisdom as something that grows and develops as we age. As we accumulate experiences, we reflect on them, learn from them, and develop new understandings that we...

Collective trauma occurs when a population as a whole is wounded. How can we respond to the long-term mental and spiritual effects of the tumult that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought?...

How do we mourn our loved ones who have died? At an unexpected moment, we feel the gasp in our throat, we lower our face; tears erupt, then sobs. We hear—even...

Meditating on these scriptures in November 2020, I try to imagine the world as it might be in the week of Trinity Sunday, June 2022. Eighteen months ago, I could not...

To those gathered in a room on the Day of Pentecost, Peter announces the inauguration of a new age, a transition marked by a mighty wind, by tongues of fire, and...

Several years ago, I first learned about the Enneagram, a personality-typing tool that a friend described as helping her understand herself better. After reading about the Enneagram’s nine personality types, I...

We often talk about our mission and values where I work. It is a hospital that was started by Franciscan sisters with a local doctor and his two sons. Because the...