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I pray because I grieve

  Approx. read time: 2:40 min. In this Christian season of Lent I pray, daily, for particular world-stage leaders who engage in endless wars. It’s not easy prayer, expressed sometimes in tears and heavy wordless sighs.  Grief, with her heart-wrenching lessons, comes to teach me a thing or two. Grief teaches me that … injustice,… Read more »

A small but pivotal opening

  Approx. read time: 1:45 min. Today a friend looks into my eyes. “Even with daily self care,” she laments, “I feel exhausted.” I feel her exhaustion. I hear her cry. “I race from one rally to the next,” she continues. “I attend Zoom conferences, make calls, send emails, write to my state and federal… Read more »

To Love As GOD Loves

  Approx. read time: 1:40 min. Looming large on my calendar is the start of Lent, a season that looms large on the soul. I think I should prepare, establish a rhythm or some practice to give me entry into this time of reflection and conversion of heart. And a phrase comes to me, which… Read more »

Enough, already: My letter to President Biden

  Approx. read time: 1.5 min Dear President Biden: The people of Gaza have endured over 100 days of ongoing genocide, with named victims exceeding 25,000. Over ten thousand children have been wantonly sacrificed, and those who survive undergo surgeries without anesthesia. Pregnant women lack necessary safety and support as they give birth. Gazan civilians… Read more »

Prayer for a new year

Approx. read time: 2:50 min. People have been saying “Good riddance” to the year that is now passed. I understand their feeling. “A year like no other” is shorthand for what is too complicated, too onerous, to recap. The past year was, like every other year, a gift, given in great love and full of… Read more »

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