There are times I wonder how much I am affecting change from the screen. Since I was eighteen, I have been writing about religion and politics. It’s so specific to that age, because the…

I’m sitting outside at my in-law’s place — where we’ve decided to camp out as we find a place to live and all the other things that come with moving — and I hear…

I’m having a hard time with the lights, the cameras, and the action. I’m discovering, actually, that I need a little less of it all. Because, when the baptisms start, I want to hear…

I cannot forget her face. It was the four of us, all dressed in magenta gowns, playing the Waiting Game — you know, that endless motion of looking at the clock — in the…

There’s no one way to say goodbye to the place I’ve called home for seven years. Chicago has been the first place — ever — that I got to call my own. Growing up,…

Richard Rohr talks about how it’s important for us to see others model God or Jesus. Whether it’s Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa or Rachel Held Evans, they are the most seemingly…

As I read through Jesus’ capture, what struck me the most had nothing to do with Jesus. It had to do with Judas. I think it’s so easy to skim over and move forward…

The headline I read this morning still brings me a mix of rage and deep sadness: Trump attorney general’s ruling expands indefinite detention for asylum seekers “Indefinite detention” as in, we — the most…

There must have been such an immense pressure to know who you are, and to also know who you are not. I wonder how Jesus interpreted the waving palms, the cries of both joy…