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.

Reviving Anticipation

I have a problem with chips and salsa. During the six months that my children and I were home together all day, every day, I may have eaten a bag...

A Story of the Simple and Great Hearing Aid

The other day, I ran around the house looking everywhere for my oldest son’s hearing aids. I checked the counter where we normally place them, his room, the bathroom....

Soul to Soul

The loud clang, clang, clang of the church bells resounding across the quad combined with the incessant chatter of excited kids running out of classrooms, looking for either their...

When I Feel the Ground Disappearing Beneath Me

One evening in early August, I stood in my kitchen in front of three open lunch boxes, feeling anxiety welling up in me. In order to cope in that...

Teacher Heroes

A picture keeps popping up in my mind as we near the start of school. It’s a colorful image of my oldest son at five years old. He is...

Finding God in the Candy Jar

Editor’s note: Today we kick off the 11th-annual 31 Days with St. Ignatius, our month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian articles found here,...