Gretchen Crowder

Gretchen Crowder has served as a campus minister and Ignatian educator for the Jesuit Dallas community for the last 15 years. She is also a freelance writer and speaker and is the host of Loved As You Are: An Ignatian Podcast. She has a B.S. in mathematics and a M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame as well as an M.T.S. from the University of Dallas. She resides in Dallas, TX, with her husband, three boys, and an ever-growing number of pets.

Invitation to Harmony

In 2024, God invited me to be bold. When I started the year, I thought that the invitation to be bold was about taking audacious steps out of my...

Taking Advance Gratitude Further

At the start of this school year, I wrote about the desire to practice something new that I called “Advance Gratitude,” or pausing in gratitude for the graces and...

While the Game Unfolds

I am a lifelong Notre Dame football fan. It started when my dad had us watch the games every Saturday growing up, and my dedication to the team (and...

Noticing the Lasts

A friend of mine had a tradition during college that started when we met my sophomore year. On the last night on campus, he would stop by my dorm...

The Particular Examen and a Desire to Grow in Presence at Home

Early one Sunday morning, as my boys and I made our way to Mass, they were having a heated discussion about the upkeep of their shared bathroom. “You know...

Advance Gratitude

Through my practice of the Ignatian Examen, I have grown accustomed to pausing in gratitude for graces and blessings received. I take this pause at the end of a...