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I like to say I was born Catholic but raised Franciscan. My early education was at institutions sponsored by wonderful Franciscan...

Today's Readings Jessica reflects on how being a Christian is less about rules and more about actions.

Today's Readings Jesus never promised that it would be easy to follow His commandments. In fact, a brief glance at the first reading for...

Today's Readings In today’s Gospel, we see Jesus’ followers being referred to as sheep. Christians are used to this kind of biblical...

Today’s Readings I have a deep and abiding love of color coding. Well, any sort of organization, but especially that which allows me to...

Today's Readings One of the greatest joys of my life has been ministering with God’s people. From Philadelphia and D.C. to Houston and...

I don’t know how I began choosing a word of the year several years ago. Most likely it was in the golden age of blogging and I stumbled...

Today's Readings When I was a youth minister, one of my favorite things was to take and lead teens on meaningful retreat experiences. We...

Today's Readings Jesus often strikes me as someone with a flair for the dramatics. I always enjoy the way Jesus uses extravagant...

Today's Reading Treat others the way you want to be treated. These words, a common refrain from parents and teachers of young children,...

Today's Readings This week, we encounter Luke’s shorter version of the Beatitudes. Here, we find ourselves “hashtag blessed,” though, not...

I caught your attention, didn’t I? ;) To start, I was quite the imaginative child growing up. I wrote very detailed short stories that...

If someone were to ask me who I most looked up to throughout Scripture, although very difficult to answer as I look up to a lot of them,...

A blog for women seems an unlikely place to find a reflection for St. Andrew. One of the fishermen called by Jesus to be fishers of men...

Today’s Readings One of my favorite parts of Advent is the time we spend hearing from the prophets, especially Jeremiah and Isaiah....

Today's Reflection “Don’t smile until Christmas!” This (terrible) piece of advice was given to me and countless other new teachers as we...

Last week I took a vacation from work. I spent it immersed in reviewing years of study and sequestered in a lovely room in my school’s...

Today's Readings Last week, I procrastinated on a project that, should I have spread out over the course of a month, would have been a...

Today's Readings Today’s first reading begins with a wish familiar to many of us: pray to receive cautious guidance, plead and receive...

I measure the seasons by my notebook of grocery lists. Cold salads, watermelon gazpacho, grilled vegetables and meats have been...