We associate the Christ Child’s arrival with angelic pronouncements and nighttime fanfare: the heavenly hosts singing and sending brilliant disturbance into the lives of...

Three Ways to Find God in Winter

Reflections Vinita Hampton Wright

I happen to like a midwestern winter: cold, barren, dark, and windy. I enjoy bundling up and walking on winter days, with or without...

The Crumpled Ribbon and a Moment of Grace

Reflections Gretchen Crowder

A sweaty little kindergartener came running towards me from the playground one afternoon. When he got close, I noticed he had something crumpled tightly...

Yo-Ho! Yo-Ho! Ignatian Life for Me

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

“Let us give thanks for the great treasure of Ignatian spirituality.” Fr. David Ayotte, SJ, led us in prayer, but I didn’t hear the rest...

Listening for God in People

Reflections Becky Eldredge

Do you ever have a moment when God speaks clearly to you through another person? I had one of those moments recently during lunch...

Finding Space for Play and Wonder

Reflections Marina Berzins McCoy

In Plato’s dialogue Theaetetus, Socrates says, “All philosophy begins in wonder” (155d). I recently thought of this in the midst of a discussion of...

The Devil in a Piece of Pie

Reflections Loretta Pehanich

Waiting for a friend at a local coffee shop, I used my smartphone to read a portion of the first letter of John. God...

Listening for God in Nature

Reflections Becky Eldredge

My love of nature began when I was a young child nurtured through the witness of my parents’ respect and awe of creation in...

Taking Off My Shoes

Reflections Tim Muldoon

“Nor can foot feel, being shod” This line from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “God’s Grandeur” is a commentary on what the poet saw as one...

What Time Is It?

Reflections Cindy Ristroph

“What time is it?” “It’s time to die.” Although the conversation between Mamma and her oncologist several months ago didn’t exactly happen with those words, that’s...

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