Mary Beth Keenan
Inviting God into Our Anxieties
Today's Readings Today’s passage from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians is a source of comfort for many people that I know. However, for...
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Mary Beth Keenan
Jul 2, 20232 min read
When Singing of God’s Kindness is Hard
Today's Readings A few years ago I would have rolled my eyes at a Psalm like today’s. Wading through deep bouts of chronic depression and...
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Karen Ross, PhD
May 9, 20232 min read
“The Doubt Disease”: Living with OCD as a Woman of Faith
Last year I was diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Much more than what stereotypes of the disease suggest (I am not a...
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Mary Beth Keenan
May 2, 20233 min read
Lessons from Jeremiah: Sharing Our Whole Self in Safe Spaces
Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! -Jeremiah 15:10 At first, this verse...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Feb 22, 20234 min read
Rolling Down the Hill
During Holy Week 2021, I participated from a distance in my parish’s annual Stations of the Cross service. Afterwards, I found myself...
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Kate Wolbert
Dec 18, 20223 min read
Emmanuel
Today's Readings Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means "God is with us." Every...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Dec 21, 20213 min read
Darkness/Light
For years, one of my favorite Advent rituals was to curate and post some version of the following on Instagram: There was something...
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Rose Miola
Oct 31, 20212 min read
Maybe I'm not that bad
Today's Readings The “Golden Rule” is supposed to be simple. 1) Love God, with all of you, 2) love others, as much as you love yourself....
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Micole Amalu
Oct 27, 20213 min read
Thérèse, Josephine, Jane, and Me
The first time a therapist used the word trauma to describe my suffering I was stunned. I had just made peace with even going to therapy!...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 20, 20213 min read
Part 2 - Wounded, Scarred, and Radiant
Content Warning: medical trauma, birth trauma, mental health, suicidal ideation This is the second part in a 2-part essay. For the first...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 18, 20214 min read
Part 1- I Didn’t Hear a Cry: PTSD, Birth Trauma, and the Road of Healing
Content Warning: medical trauma, birth trauma Oddly enough, I thought about Angelina Jolie on the operating table. Years before, I’d read...
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Caroline Head
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Boundaries, please!
In March 2020, I was teaching third grade in suburban Chicago. On Friday, March 13th, we were given directions to send home belongings...
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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Oct 6, 20214 min read
Kicking to the Surface
I had someone ask me not long ago why I decided to take medication for my mental health. I was already in therapy. Why did I suddenly...
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Micole Amalu
Sep 15, 20213 min read
In Our Heaviness
Life is heavy and I’m not okay. The emotional impact of the past two years of infertility has caught up with me. The loss of our unborn...
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Micole Amalu
Jun 27, 20213 min read
A Church that Loves
Today’s Readings “I’m useless.” “My mental illness makes me a burden.” “Until I’m healed, I don’t have anything to offer those around...
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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Jan 31, 20212 min read
Quiet! Come Out!
Today's Readings Not sleeping well is a habit in my family. Most of us have the gift of trying to fall asleep and instead doing inventory...
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