Enjoy these three shining stars in the Hope Writers community! Julianne Gilchrist on What if You Were a Refugee? Mindy Larsen with a brutifal reflection on fertility struggles Sara Billups with the fabulous tagline: Courage for Orphaned Believers.
Weekend Reading
Photo by Vincent Albos on Pexels.com Can't believe we are staring at the last weekend in June! This month has flown by for us. I've got a few treats for you this week, including a podcast, an article, and a television show for kids! Find the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Podcast: The Breakdown First …
Student-Centered Learning
Here's a piece I recently published in our school's magazine about student-centered learning: I try to place the student’s experience in the center of the curriculum because I’ve come to believe it is the most effective way for them to learn. Social Location Project I start most of my semesters with a project called Social …
Rob Bell is my tomato
When I was younger I did not like tomatoes. To me they were mealy, flavorless, red wedges of nothing. No good. Now, I love a good tomato- of course. And it's because the tomato has changed (I now live in California- not the Midwest- where access to delicious, juicy, flavorful, fresh tomatoes is easy. AND …
Lament for the Catholic Church
I believe the illumination of the sexual abuse and rape crisis in the Catholic Church is a necessary step toward healing our broke-down Body of Christ. I feel the need to express some emotional response to the sickening revelations of rape and abuse - and their root, which I believe is the foundational missteps in …
How my volunteer year taught me to resist
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Detroit 1999-2000) Photo by Free Nature Stock on Pexels.com It’s been almost 20 years since I hurtled enthusiastically into my volunteer year. Fresh out of college, passionate about Jesus, and eager to make my faith manifest in my daily life, I stepped out of my parents’ car at the orientation of the …
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You Will Find Nourishment
My reflection on the weekly readings, including Luke's account of the Feeding of the Five Thousand.
Weekend Reading
Happy Friday, everyone! Did you rush out to see Toy Story 4? And... what'd ya think? A video, an article, an enewsletter, and two websites for you this weekend: Required watching on the subject of reparations. I so deeply agree with everything Ta-Nehisi Coates says, and I think he argues for reparations brilliantly. If you …
Melchize-WHO?
The Catholic lectionary readings for June 23 contain so much good stuff. I wrote about them on the Ignatian Solidarity Network's Rise Up reflections. And here's what I didn't have room for... People are more valuable than money. Yet mainstream American culture fights to the death to make us believe that wealth is located in …
Weekend Reading
Welcome to another weekend! This week's collection is all written work, but contains some of my all-time favorites! Trinity Sunday The best sermon I've ever heard on Trinity Sunday period: "Two’s company and three’s a crowd. The dreaded love triangle! Somehow we have to get rid of the third side. Find a dragon to swallow …
Molleen Dupree-Dominguez 