The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at the field’s edge.
‘Greater horizons’: Tending to each other and our common home
Angels among us: How helping leads to healing
As we settle into a new year already shadowed by political tensions, I’m focusing on the acts of kindness playing out in my midst.
The pursuit of happiness in the new year
As I look ahead to 2017 and that which has never been, I’ve been thinking of all the history that has come before me — both as a Catholic and a member of my family.
Prayer box taps into spiritual hunger
The box went up on a Monday evening in August, a plain white box nestled inside a little wooden tent, mounted atop a fence and beneath the outermost reach of a maple.
Listening at the keyholes: how to love better, learn more
The Holy Father has charged us to be a ‘listening church,’ but our noisy Information Age makes it hard to listen well, and my generation may suffer the most.
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. […]
Olympic inspiration: waiting for that unifying moment
It was a rough July, on a national scale, marked by division: shootings, protests, funerals, conventions.
To bake is to believe: A convert in the kitchen
Staci Perry bakes like she lives. She doesn’t measure. She works with what’s already in the fridge. And she scrapes every last bit out of the […]