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Reflect In the indigenous Lakota tradition, the Mitakuye Oyasin prayer offers thanks for “all my relations”: our deep interconnectedness to other people, animals, and all of the living world.  In our Christian faith, St. Francis of prayed in a similar ...

Reflect  “Don’t change!” I plead to the traffic light at the end of the exit ramp. No use. I brake to a stop beside a homeless veteran on the grass holding a sign. Embarrassed to turn my eyes away, I ...

Reflect The Israelites sojourned for forty years in the desert, learning to be a community and learning to trust entirely in God to sustain them. Manna was the symbol of this faith: food enough to last a day or two, but ...

Reflect The rich man said, “This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods, and I shall say to myself, ‘Now as for ...

Reflect When smart phones first came on the scene, they seemed just like handy gadgets. Little did we know that these trojan horses and their apps would cause such massive social change—much of it harmful, especially for younger generations. As people ...

Reflect In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus sees a man with a withered hand, a hand that was obvious to everyone. Most of us have withered parts, too, even if they aren’t visible to anyone else. Maybe a withered heart of compassion, ...