His name is Omran. He sits motionless in an Aleppo ambulance after his family home was bombed. His silent stare screams at anyone looking: “I am a human being! Why can’t you see me?”
Welcoming the stranger: thinking globally, acting locally
Caribbean dreaming: bold adventures, surprise homecomings
The phone call came when I was boiling sweet corn — suppertime on a hum-drum Sunday whose excitement peaked with a trip to the grocery store. […]
Two Benedictine women devoted to guiding young minds, hearts
Shortly before I started the fifth grade, my family moved from a farm in South Dakota to the farm where my mom grew up in Minnesota. […]
Conscience and voting 2016
Conscience brings us into the realm of morality, considering not only what could be done, but what ought to be done in specific situations.
Visits with migrant workers helped me to see ‘we’ instead of ‘them’
“Migrant workers.” Many of us have heard that term, and many of us have a picture of who these workers are and what their lives are like. Right?
No summer vacation: ‘Propagating’ our faith is year-round ministry
It always amazes me in the early spring to witness the growth of new life around me from the leafless trees and barren soil to the […]
Olympic inspiration: waiting for that unifying moment
It was a rough July, on a national scale, marked by division: shootings, protests, funerals, conventions.
A year after Planned Parenthood videos, it’s business as usual
It has been just a year since David Daleiden from the Center for Medical Progress began releasing videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing fees for human fetal tissue and organs they procured through abortion.