Seeing the World as Kin
Kyle Kramer
April 21, 2021
Through the eyes of love, we see a tree as kin to us, a fellow God-made creature, with its own dignity and its own right to live and grow.
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Kyle Kramer
Kyle Kramer is executive director of the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a regular contributor to St. Anthony Messenger and the author of Making Room: Soul-Deep Satisfaction through Simple Living (Franciscan Media).
Living an Analog Childhood
Kyle Kramer
April 16, 2021
These days, we are all inundated with distractions thanks to the various forms of technology at our disposal.
The Spirituality of Subtraction
Kyle Kramer
April 14, 2021
St. Francis lived the spirituality of subtraction. He let go not only of his property, but also of his status, his pride, his ambition, his ego, and his need to be right.
A New Take on Lenten Fasting
Kyle Kramer
February 26, 2021
As a zealous young man, I often undertook pretty extreme examples of Lenten fasting.
Repairers of the Breach: A Meditation on America
Kyle Kramer
January 11, 2021
I believe—I choose and keep choosing to believe—that God wants us to be one and will help us on that path.
Battling the Darkness
Kyle Kramer
November 4, 2020
To paraphrase Dante’s famous opening lines from the Inferno, I find myself “within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”
Proudly Patriotic
Kyle Kramer
October 6, 2020
An anti-immigration wave is washing over America and much of the Western world. This wave often drowns out the sensible voices of our pope and bishops, who teach that we must create “a world where immigrants, refugees, migrants, and people on the move are treated with dignity, respect, welcome, and belonging. “