Jessica
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Caught off Guard by Grace
Last night I participated in an ecumenical series hosted by the Metro DC Synod of the ELCA, One in the Spirit. Speakers were asked to share a moment they were surprised by God. This is what I shared, (with some… Continue reading
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Jubilee
It’s been over a year since I last shared something here at WIT Blog, but it hasn’t been for lack of trying. The last two years of weathering a mini-apocalypse/global pandemic has been world-shifting in so many ways, some that… Continue reading
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Gem-Turning & the Hide-and-Seek God
My 7 year-old daughter, a budding theologian, tends to wax poetic when most children do — at bedtime when she has a captive audience and would rather do anything but sleep. The times when I manage to set aside my… Continue reading
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Sacred Memory: Remember, Remember
My last surviving grandparent — my paternal grandmother — passed away in November. Nanay (1) was 94 years old, the mother of 11 children, grandmother to countless grandchildren. After living in the United States for 30+ years, she was laid… Continue reading
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Why I Write for WIT: Making space.
When I decided to apply as a WIT contributor, I was struggling a lot (and still am, to some extent) with finding a space where I felt safe to be transparent about my beliefs/doubts/critiques of Christianity and Catholicism specifically. Most… Continue reading
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This isn’t the end of the story: Lent + the 3-6 year-old child
Before I had kids, I had all these grand plans for how I would raise them, constantly taking mental notes of what I would and would not do. When I became the head of a faith formation program at a… Continue reading
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Advent II: And the darkness has not overcome it.
This is a reflection on the readings for the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Click here to see the readings. There’s a fine line between meaningful ritual and mindless repetition. Outwardly, both involve doing/saying the same thing day in and day… Continue reading
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Wandering on the Edges of Home
This past Sunday marked 40 days since the news broke about the Pennsylvania grand jury report. 40 days of wandering in my own personal desert, trying to find the right words, but mostly doing what I do best, which is… Continue reading
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Today, I write.
I almost didn’t write this post. And while there are a great number of perfectly legitimate reasons (excuses?) why I couldn’t possibly take the time to write, at the end of the day, the real reason would have been fear.… Continue reading
