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May 2017

May 04, 2017

The Mysteries of Faith: Saving Chauncey The Shelter Dog

Chauncey was most watchful of all. And once he did approach, he hunched over as...

April 2017

April 10, 2017

Farewell, My Beautiful Eliza–A Lenten Lesson

God bless you, you beautiful little fur ball. I'll miss you forever.

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Busy Lives & Restless Souls: A Practical Approach to Ignatian Spirituality

To skeptics I would say this book is a timely and worthy introduction to the...

March 20, 2017

Do You Love Me? Feed My Sheep

Jesus was leading me through a similar process. Asking me, "Who do you love?" And...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

Hopi Lessons: What Trump’s Election Says About All of Us

A couple of weeks ago, in a Facebook post, one of my Hopi in laws...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Can Morgan Freeman Give Us “Proof of God?” (Spoiler Alert)

God is not a thing out there in the universe that we look for. It’s...

January 13, 2017

How Does Jesus Talk to You?

You let God fill your mind with whatever He wants. And you may not even...

January 03, 2017

My Religious Resolution: “If It Takes You Away from God, Let It Go”

Time and time again, He rejoiced in the faith shown by people who didn't know...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

“Where Angels Walk,” Stories of the Angels Among Us

Not long after her own son had been rescued from an almost certain death by...

December 12, 2016

Deepak Defines God, But That’s No Fun

Let me begin by saying that I was over Deepak Chopra decades ago. About the...

December 02, 2016

Drop That Stone, Jesus is Testing You

And what amazes and saddens me most, as a new convert, is how angry some...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

“My Life with the Saints,” An Amiable, Accessible Introduction

It's like an amuse bouche. Or better yet, you could call it a Whitman sampler...

November 18, 2016

Déjà Vu All Over Again–Ruminations of a Black Woman in Trumpland

I knew that God had made a courageous but dangerous decision. America was going to...

November 04, 2016

The Hopi Way: It’s A Woman’s World

Hopi women, to this day, have an innate sense of purpose and self-worth I feel...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Fake It ‘Til You Make It: When God Goes “On Vacation”

And that relationship with Jesus that a lot of people don’t think Catholics have? Mine...

October 21, 2016

Historia’s House–at Play in the Fields of the Lord

I had to lose myself first. Carry and die on a whole lot of crosses.

October 14, 2016

Move Over Dr. Who: Jesus Is “Time” Lord?

For those who require scientific proof of the divine, Tyson’s theory might indeed be the...

October 07, 2016

A Holy Fool Dancing in a World Gone Mad

They danced all the trials and tribulations of being Black in America down that aisle...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Catholicism: The Enchanted Kingdom

Catholics live in an enchanted world, a world of statues and holy water, stained glass...

September 23, 2016

High Octane Brain: Father Mike Schmitz Breaks It Down For You

Fr. Schmitz goes deep. Way deep. Before you know it, he’s hit you with the...

September 12, 2016

My First Confession: Jesus Made Me Do It

My pride had been keeping Him at arm’s length, too, in a way, as I...

September 06, 2016

How Great Thou Art: North Rim Ruminations

It is my favorite church, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, where I spent...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

You Call Yourself a Catholic?

Do I call myself a Catholic? Yes. A proud, joyful, grateful and vociferous one. Jesus...

August 15, 2016

Your God Is Too Small

I have a feeling that the scientists out there who see and hear from that...

August 08, 2016

What Mike Pence Missed: Jesus “Speaks” to Catholics, Too

I walk into the darkness, toward that red lamp glowing behind the altar, and I...

August 02, 2016

How NOT to Evangelize—From a New Catholic Convert, With Love and Hope

Jesus reached out to some pretty interesting people, even when His disciples and the Pharisees...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

The Problem With Prayer

Richard Rohr says prayer is being loved at a deep, sweet level.

July 21, 2016

Defending Your Faith: “It’s the Spirituality, Stupid!”

So my love is “visceral,” not cerebral. And for those who do not understand my...

July 11, 2016

Divine Detours: “Shalom” and “Askwali”

What would it be like, I wondered, to know and love God so well? To...

July 04, 2016

Do Me Like Jesus

And then, grace. And a “voice” that explained, “Beloved (He calls everyone that), I’ve taught...