God, grant me the kind of faith that grieves as much for Iranian school girls crushed at their desks as for brave American soldiers. The kind of faith that weeps as much for Palestinian children buried in rubble as for Israeli worshippers killed at worship. The kind of faith that pleads as much for wisdom […]

I have been dormant for a season. Overwork, a new puppy, attending to family needs. I have gone quiet. And in the quiet, I have been pondering this season of life in which I find myself. I turn to Richard Rohr and his book "Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life." Rohr […]

After witnessing the tragic shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, and after hearing the obscenities shouted at her by the officer who pulled the trigger, I was reminded (as were millions of other women) of the time those same obscenities were shouted at me. ********** We were in Louisville, Kentucky this past fall for […]

I keep practicing opposites: When I feel sad, I dance barefoot in the kitchen. When I am tired, I hop on our exercise bike and pedal away. When I feel despair, I read a book of poems on joy. This practice doesn't always work, but it often feels like my best effort at resistance in […]

I heard a poem yesterday … or I should say, a part of a poem. I am not sure who the author of the poem was. I am not even sure I have the phrase right. Nonetheless, I have been captured by its truth, this little, potentially misquoted, phrase: "Lord, most of what I love […]

A poem for the New Year, by Maya Angelou … Continue My wish for you is that you continue Continue To be who and how you are to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness Continue To allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart Continue In a society dark with […]