Katie Davis-Crowder
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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Katie McKeon
Feb 26, 20233 min read
Encountering Jesus in the Desert
Today's Readings Today is the first Sunday of Lent. Living in the Midwest, I appreciate how the Lenten season corresponds with the end of...
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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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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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Rachel Conrad Carlson
Jun 26, 20223 min read
The Gift of True Freedom
Today's Readings The second reading this week from Galatians centers around the concept of freedom, an idea at the core of American...
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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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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Mar 16, 20214 min read
Healing Hurts
2020 began for me with what I believed to be a clogged duct from breastfeeding. A painful occurrence to be sure, and that eventually...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Nov 15, 20202 min read
To those who have been given much
Today’s Readings Today is World Day of the Poor. In 2016, Pope Francis declared that the thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary time as the Day...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Nov 3, 20202 min read
No Matter What This Day Brings
It is unusual to wake up on a day and know that it is going to be historic. Usually these sorts of days happen upon us, appearing...
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Jessica Grima Jewett
Oct 25, 20202 min read
Loving Like Christ in 2020
On the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, which is World Youth Sunday, the readings couldn’t be more perfect. We see in the first reading from...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Oct 22, 20202 min read
Kamala, Ruth, and Naomi
“I’m speaking.” Hearing Kamala Harris have to repeat those words over and over as she was interrupted struck a deep chord in me and all...
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