Dec 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Lectio divina on this morning’s second reading from the Daily Lectionary. Click here to read it. "you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness." (1 Thess 5:5) Of course, Indigo Girls fan that I am, I...
Nov 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
“God has only sons and daughters,” the pope said. “We are the ones who raise walls, build barriers, and label people. God has sons and daughters precisely so that no one will be turned away.” Francis said “our instinctive reaction” is to “discredit or curse” those who...
Nov 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have always had a precarious relationship with breathing. My very first breaths were problematic, or so I have been told. My childhood and school years were punctuated by asthmatic episodes; I toted quick response meds as regularly as pencils and...
Nov 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
George Takei is an actor, activist and social media maven. The United States apologized for locking up Japanese Americans. Have we learned nothing? An excerpt: There is dangerous talk these days by those who have the ear of some at the highest levels of government....
Nov 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Abstract The goal of this essay is to understand the colonial roots of the disproportionate violence rates against Indigenous women, the Highway of Tears (a Highway in Northern British Columbia along which over 40 women have gone missing), as well as address the...
Nov 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
What a difference a week makes. It already seems like forever ago that we lived in a world where Trump just couldn’t be elected president. Most of us (literally - a popular majority) just knew in our bones that when we cast our vote, this annoying potential...