It’s Complicated: A Different Liturgy for Mother’s Day
Editor's Note: This piece initially posted on the RLC blog on May 6, 2020.
You don't need me to tell you that Mother's Day is complicated for m...
Praying with Mary, through Mary, for Hurting Mothers of War
I am not a Catholic, but I’m praying to Mary … with Mary, through Mary … for the Mothers of Gaza.
I am not a Catholic. In fact, I was raised in th...
“For Love of the Broken Body: A Spiritual Memoir” Excerpt
Being a Sister is a form of radical discipleship of Jesus Christ, I figure. It is how I can live in a committed intentional community long-term with l...
“Isolated and Othered”, Adaptation from “Beyond Ethnic Loneliness”
Adapted from Chapter 4, “Isolated and Othered”
“Pick a color,” she said. “Write down your color.” I was at a writers’ workshop in Minnesota, and this...
A Second Chance Should Be Our First Choice with Prison Reform
Editor's Note: This piece was first published by NewsOne on March 6, 2024. Republished here with permission.
August 2024 will mark two years si...
Tears of Gold: Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women, an Excerpt
Content taken from Tears of Gold by Hannah Rose Thomas, ©2024. Used by permission of Plough Books.
Excerpt from the Foreword
One of Hannah’s a...
An Unforgiving Christian, excerpt from “Forgiveness after Trauma”
The summer I turned nineteen, I felt a need to reckon with someone who had both harmed me deeply and done much good in my life. I decided to set new b...
In Between A Rock Is A Hard Place
I love the Psalms because the conversations shared are raw, uncensored, uplifting, and reassuring. They model the brutal honesty we can boldly and saf...
Roe v. Wade Anniversary
On January 22, 1973, the US Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade that a mother has the legal right to end her pregnancy up until the point at which th...
Secretary-General’s Climate Ambition Summit Previewed Growing Impatience of Inaction on Climate Change
On September 17, I joined several of my sisters with United Women in Faith at the March to End Fossil Fuels. We hailed from Kentucky, Pennsylvania, an...