Recent Writing

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Cultivate patience by keeping pace with nature
Cultivate patience by keeping pace with nature, US Catholic

Culture & Reviews

Rosalia’s Lux: A Mystical Prayer, National Catholic Reporter

The Catholicity of The Artist’s Way, National Catholic Reporter

Review of Sacred Stones, U.S. Catholic

Artist Grace Morbitzer envisions an inclusive church

Reporting about Faith

Envisioning an Inclusive Church, COVER Profile U.S. Catholic

An Avid Reader? Consider the Practice of Lectio Divina, U.S. Catholic

An Artist Finds His Calling Painting a City’s Forgotten Faces, Profile, U.S. Catholic

Opinion & Personal Essays

“Flight,” Buechner Narrative Writing Prize Winner, Christian Century Magazine. Page link (#3 essay)

Finding Joy on Pilgrimage with Author Brian Doyle, U.S. Catholic

A Real-Life Refuge, U.S. Catholic

Companion in Exile: Flannery O’Connor, U.S. Catholic

Finding Lenten Answers with Lectio Divina, Columbus Catholic Times

Retreat from Loneliness, Columbus Monthly

We Need More Women in the Lectionary, U. S. Catholic

The Value of Irreverence, Made for Ordinary Time blog

What My Dad Taught Me about Holiness, U.S. Catholic

Eileen Egan: The peace advocate often cropped out, U.S. Catholic.

Sr. Simone Campbell: A nun on the bus, U.S. Catholic.

A Communion Conundrum for Catholics with Celiac Disease, U.S. Catholic

My Daily Bread-lessness: A Celiac Sufferers Prayerbook, Sick Pilgrim

About Addiction & Co-Dependency

Does Your Parish Have a Drinking Problem?, US Catholic

The Season of Waiting Isn’t Always Joyful, US Catholic

About Social Justice

Finding Family in Unlikely Places, Sojourners

About Family

Schooled in Family Cooking, Columbus Monthly.

See my most recent features and columns for U.S. Catholic.