How a Year of Service Broke Me Open
When a gruff nun called from Los Angeles to offer me a position teaching at a low-income high school for the year after I graduated college, I said yes. While I was raised in Silicon Valley and the Catholic and public schools I attended were all fairly affluent, how different could it be to teachContinue reading “How a Year of Service Broke Me Open”
Our Food Sources Can Help Us Build a Better World
Farmer’s markets are my happy place; they are such a delight for the senses. Peppers, berries, greens — you can see them artfully arranged, often in their color families. It is nature’s version of The Home Edit. Read more on the Grotto Network.
Why I Stay
In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, I wrote a letter that was impulsively posted on my social media accounts. “Dear White Christians, We have failed Jesus Christ.” The letter proceeded to lambaste the Hallmark-card-wrapped-in-a-platitude response that many white Christian leaders preferred to acknowledging the consequences of police brutality. Although I mentioned several prominentContinue reading “Why I Stay”
You can safely assume that you’ve made God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people that you do.
Anne Lamott
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