For many years, I spent a portion of December on mission trips to Nicaragua. Even now, Advent conjures up images of a rural mountain village, where very few decorations are needed to announce God’s arrival. We once visited a local family, who invited us to share a...
“Are You With Me, Church?” I was first introduced to Sister Thea Bowman by my classmate Beverly Ann Stewart, a long-time minister and health-care professional in the African American community in Chicago. Bev talked about Sister Thea Bowman the way you talk...
This month’s blog series is “Uniquely Created." Last month we spoke about Gathering the graces. God graces us with all we need to be the person God uniquely created us to be. If we internalize and believe and trust that we are in fact uniquely created, uniquely...
This month's blog series focuses on the grace we pray for in the second week of the Spiritual Exercises: to know, to love, and to follow Jesus. Today Beth Knobbe shares with us how she has seen God's work at play in her life during this time of COVID-19. I sat...
During our first Into the Deep blog series "Drawn to Ignatius" members of our writing team will tell us the ways Ignatian Spirituality has informed their lives, prayers, and their desire to go into the deep. Today Beth Knobbe shares the many things she has learned...
I don’t do hospitals. I was sufficiently traumatized by two separate trips to the emergency room as a child. The thought of sitting in a waiting room is enough to make me queasy! It’s no surprise that I rejected the idea of hospital chaplaincy during Divinity...
This week, I want to introduce you to a new contributor and friend, Beth Knobbe! A year ago, Beth and I were finally able to not only meet, but work together on a retreat project for the upcoming World Youth Day in Poland. For years I followed her from afar and...
