In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier reflects on the life and witness of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray: “Murray is a figure that represents so much to so many, and yet their story is undeniably human… In a world where we paint our public saints and heroes with a broad brush, Murray’s witness invites us to delve deeper.”
Like fasting during Lent, keeping the Easter feast is an ancient spiritual practice. …
This week, Mother Alice invites us into tactile, embodied implications of Jesus on the cross.
From a young age, society encourages us to show strength. Maintaining up with constant narratives of strength and triumph is a fast track to spiritual and physical exhaustion. …
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier reflects on what might have happened after the Prodigal Son’s return.
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Mother Alice explores the Psalmist’s imagery of finding refuge under the shadow of God’s wings.
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier reflects on the return of sacramental wine in our Sunday worship.
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Mother Alice reflects on the story of Lazarus: “Recently I’ve been touched by the story of the raising of Lazarus, which pays particular attention to Jesus’ grief and loss over his friend.”
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier reflects on the 2019 film The Best of Enemies: “Thank God for people like Atwater: people who believe in the potential of unlikely friendship without sacrificing their dignity and worth in the process. Thank God for unlikely converts like Ellis too, and the ways that we—each in our own way—are called to emulate both.”
In her new book Prayer in the Night, author Tish Harrison Warren describes her experience of lying under the fluorescent lights of a hospital operating room, hemorrhaging from a miscarriage.
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier reflects on the prayer practice known as lectio divina: “Practicing this kind of attention is counter-cultural. In a world of endless news cycles and constant distraction, I’ve found it to be an enriching and grounding endeavor.”