By Johanna Hatch When Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, KS, was murdered in his church almost a month ago, I hugged my belly and cried. I was a little over 15 weeks pregnant, and even though my pregnancy was (and is, praise God) healthy and strong and I was committed to carrying to term, I [...]
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by Jen Owens Yesterday morning, Kate and I were disturbed to hear the news that the democratically-elected president of Honduras had been overthrown via military coup, by a graduate of the School of the Americas, no less. We were even more disappointed to learn that Assistant Secretary of State of the US Philip Crowley stopped [...]
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By Jessica Coblentz Lately, I’ve been going to Mass all the time. Every day, almost. I joke with my friends that I’ve turned into an eighty-year old woman—one of those revered, ever-faithful, daily-Mass-going matriarchs. I didn’t think 23-year-old, left-wing, suspicious theology students like me could become that woman. But, come noon, I find myself on [...]
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by Angela Batie After four years of summers spent interning on organic farms, my sister is in month three of cultivating her very own plot of land, where she spends 12 hours a day, at least six days a week. I volunteered to help out during my visit to Denver: a grueling three and a [...]
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by Claire Bischoff I was sitting in an ethics class the first time I realized that vocation was not just for sisters, brothers, and priests. The professor quoted Frederick Buecher’s understanding of vocation: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”* It was one [...]
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by Rebecca Fullan 0. In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind blew over the waters. 2006. I arrive at Harvard Divinity school, and take a class called “Understanding Katrina: Theology, Ethics, and Praxis.” It’s about the [...]
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by Jen Owens “I don’t know what you did to the coffee, but it’s cold.” I didn’t know her name, as she hadn’t introduced herself, but it was only 7:30 this Saturday morning, and I wasn’t feeling as chipper as I might. My youngest brother David and I bustled around the small kitchen near our [...]
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We just got word from the folks at the Liturgical Press that they are offering a 30% discount on all purchases of From the Pews in the Back made on their website until July 31st, 2009. Click here and type the code LPPEW30 when entering your purchasing information. Our release date is still July 1st, [...]
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By Kate Lucas Everything changes in Minnesota in the summer. It’s like everyone blooms out of the walls after five months of dormancy. Scores of people are suddenly strolling and biking and paddling and playing baseball and eating ice cream from early morning into the twilight hours. Quickly, the memories of winter fade away, and [...]
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by Eileen Markey I love that our story has God become flesh. I love that partaking of that flesh is the central ritual of our faith. This week’s readings celebrate Corpus Christi – the solemnity of the body and blood of Christ. It doesn’t seem difficult, at least in a general sense, to conceive of [...]
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by Kate Henley Averett I have to admit that sometimes, I have a hard time writing, and speaking, about abortion. Maybe the years of passing that blue station wagon in the parking lot on the way into Mass every Sunday, the one with the bumper sticker that said “You can’t be Catholic and pro-choice,” really [...]
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By Kate Dugan I admit it: I love chick lit. I spent the better part of this past Sunday afternoon devouring Lauren Weisberger’s Everyone Worth Knowing. I read these books like I watch movies—for the entertainment, for the escapism, for the encompassing feeling of a plot line. I love getting sucked in. When my husband [...]
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by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello This week we celebrate Trinity Sunday–by my standards one of the most complicated and confusing weeks to write on because the Trinity has always confounded me. Yet the Holy Spirit which is at the center of this annual celebration has also always intrigued me and this year perhaps Ihave made a dent [...]
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By Kate Dugan Two months ago, my husband and I moved aboard a boat and moved ourselves to rural Olympic Peninsula, Washington. My spiritual life is forever changed. Not only did we downsize from a 1,700 square foot apartment, we moved from downtown Olympia to an island without a formal town on it. My carbon [...]
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