Midwest Pilgrims: We’re Still Here
March 26, 2018[…] over post-retreat remembrances, I hear the hopeful voices of women who aren’t necessarily trying to change the world or the world of the church, but are trying very hard to find ways to live […]
[…] over post-retreat remembrances, I hear the hopeful voices of women who aren’t necessarily trying to change the world or the world of the church, but are trying very hard to find ways to live […]
[…] average of 250 missionaries— 35 of us women—we were probably one of the largest missions in the world in 1977 and where baptisms among the Catholic French-speaking people were rare. For the majority of […]
[…] had last spoken to her. I secretly envied those with real grief. I was jealous of that world-worn, gray-lined look. The crying, pale face showed up grieving in my mirror when my Grandfather Nielson […]
[…] headline: TERRORISTS BOMB AMERICA! The driver, hoping to have been the one to reveal such rare, exciting news, monitored Leila’s face as she read of horrific events involving hijacked planes used as deadly missiles. […]
[…] overlap for six months, and there was something striking in this. Perhaps the combined power of our mutual sacrifice would extract some softness from our father, some blessing from God. Before I left I […]
[…] to The Matrix as a source of metaphysical inspiration and is impervious (if one judges by network news and political campaigns) to any information that can’t be delivered in a twenty-second sound bite. Conclusion […]
[…] had lifted its ban on blacks in the priesthood. He was driving on the freeway when the news came over the radio. Bob had to pull off the road because he couldn’t see through […]
[…] got to choose a hundred dollars worth of fishing equipment from Carlson’s as a prize. The Second World War was over, but equipment was still hard to get. I fished with a metal telescope […]
[…] this earth, and we are left only with the assurances of a “translator” that the testimony contained in the record is “true,” although we do not, in fact, have even the complete text as […]
[…] we simply open our eyes and look about us, it would seem that Amos got it wrong. In societies insulated by affluence, where life runs in routine and moves by diversion, it is visible […]