Monday, September 14, 2026 Happy Monday, my friends! I was in eighth grade at St. Benedict’s School in Cambridge, OH. I can’t remember when we learned that something tragic had happened, but I remember the moment when our principal, Sr. Miriam, came into the room and whispered something into Mrs. Wilson’s ear. She quickly stopped her lesson and wheeled out the classroom TV so that we could watch the news which was just then making sense of a second plane hitting the World Tra

Sunday, September 13, 2026 Padraig LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; but the earth he has given to human beings.” ~Psalm 115:16 (NRSV) Devotion My pre-Christian Celtic ancestors understood something that modern Christianity has forgotten: the sacred isn’t locked away in buildings or confined to Sunday mornings. There are places, thin places, they called them, where the boundary between the physical and the spiritual become

Monday, September 7, 2026 Happy Monday, my friends! It’s no secret that America likes its cowboys. These mythical men who go off to lonely places where they interact only with a few other people, several working dogs, and whatever livestock are under their care. We romanticize their solitude, longing ourselves for those rare moments of silence in our noise-driven lives. Around them we’ve constructed ideals rooted less in reality than in our perception of how we too might achi