Jocelyn E. Collen
Liberating Love: The Generous Widow
As I write this, we are a few days away from the election, and I pray that the next President of the United States will govern with...
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Sue Delvaux
Nov 42 min read
A Perspective on Tomorrow
Our Church calls November 5th, 2024 “The Tuesday of the Thirty-first week in Ordinary Time.” For me, it is much more. I am now 73 years...
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Patty Breen
Oct 293 min read
All God's Children Matter
We are days from what is predicted to be an even closer presidential election, which feels frightening to even acknowledge. The...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Oct 243 min read
The Dangers of that Founding Myth
On Tuesday you read my thoughts on the myth of being founded as a Christian Nation . I purposely avoided the very large, very dangerous...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Oct 223 min read
A Foundational Myth
One of the greatest myths held by a portion of our nation’s population is that we are a Christian nation. To an extent, yes. In the sense...
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Jessica Curbis
Oct 12 min read
On Being a Faithful Citizen
As the election season looms closer, we at Wisdom’s Dwelling are taking the opportunity to give space to the challenges that always arise...
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Josie Diebold
Sep 72 min read
God of Possibilities
Today’s reading from Isaiah paints a remarkable, beautiful composite of images: Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Jul 63 min read
Complacency, Complicity, and the Call
Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...
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Josie Diebold
Apr 132 min read
Commitment to Collective Liberation
In Heather McGhee’s book, The Sum of Us, she tells the story of the drained public pool. In the 1920s and 1930s, there were massive...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Apr 64 min read
Some Mercy Now
“MERCY is NOT table fry sharing!” Almost twenty years after leaving our Mercy high school, my best friend and I still exchange this...
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Josie Diebold
Dec 30, 20232 min read
Shaped by Family
“The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him” (Luke 2:22). This is one of the small peeks we...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Oct 5, 20234 min read
Praise God - On Laudate Deum
The Pope is probably the furthest from the periphery you could get when considering voices in the Church. However, yesterday Pope Francis...
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Jane Aseltyne
Sep 9, 20233 min read
The Complexities of Loving All Our Neighbors
Today's Readings I am going on my third year as a resident of Chicago. Living in Hyde Park is like living in a microcosm of the world....
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Jessica Curbis
Dec 14, 20221 min read
Creating Justice
Today's Readings For the third Wednesday in Advent, Jessica reflects on God as Creator of Justice and reminds us of our role in that as...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Oct 23, 20223 min read
Jesus' Crowded Table + the Pharisee in Me
Today's Readings It’s no secret that Jesus was a friend of the outcast. His life was about radical commitment to people most in need--the...
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Jessica Curbis
Sep 19, 20222 min read
What Does Deuteronomy say about Creation?
Land, law, and love - these are the three main themes in the Book of Deuteronomy - getting to the land, the law to stay in the land, and...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Sep 12, 20223 min read
Kinship with the Earth
A few months ago, as Chicago’s short-lived spring began to give way to the sunshiny freedom of summertime, I had the opportunity to write...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Aug 21, 20222 min read
Cutting Threads in a World of Gray
Today’s Readings The readings today are a mixed bag. At some points the words offer comfort and hope. At others the warn of wailing and...
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Jessica Curbis
Aug 17, 20221 min read
When our leaders fall
Today's Readings Jessica encourages us to use our voices to stand against injustices, in light of today's first reading.
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