Perhaps it will happen only once in your lifetime. Ignatius said that more was revealed to him sitting by the Cardoner River in Manressa than in the rest of his entire life. Mother Theresa clearly remembered receiving her “call within a call” on a train ride in Darjeeling, India. Albert Einstein was able to articulate the theory of relativity after an image “came to him” of what it would be like to be riding on a lightning bolt. Perhaps it is the moment Michelanglo envisioned in his painting in …

It is not Pascal’s wager…except maybe on my worst days. It is not blind man’s bluff…except when I cannot feel Her presence. It is not the God of the Gaps…except for when I look at Hubble images. God is not any of these things, really, except for when I need Him to be. Then I turn to those old proofs because, at the time, I cannot recognize God in the here and now. I need the structure because I cannot always find the presence of Grace on my own.
Yet, when …

I’m almost 22 weeks pregnant with my first baby, which on my dancer’s frame basically just looks like I recently ate a big turkey dinner. I feel like I am walking around with a secret that strangers can’t see when they look at me, saving me from the awkward stomach-touching which I’m sure will come in the next few months. Right now me and the baby are having our own little private party that I get to attend at all times of days and places without anyone else knowing what …

I have been thinking a lot about anger lately, probably because there is a lot to be angry about. Most of my anger is directed toward those who seem unable or unwilling to see the reality of the environmental challenges facing the world at this moment in time. As anyone who pays attentions is aware, the list is long and growing. Even if the worst case scenarios do not play out, there will still be significant and serious changes to the earth’s environment that will be irreversible. …