To live right now takes courage and faith

"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts" (Wendell Berry)

For all of us trying to get offline. Hope this helps.

1. A regular dose of Wendell Berry’s poetry goes a long way to cure what ails us. I reread this favorite every six months, and it’s about time again. “So, friends, every day do something / that won’t compute. Love the Lord. / Love the world.”

2. My co-author Kathleen Cahalan and I were delighted to learn that our new edition of Called on the Way: The Daily Practice of Discipleship won Honorable Mention in the pastoral ministry/catechetical category from the Catholic Media Association.  

3. “It takes courage and faith to name the evil in front of you, to name the thunder and the wilderness and the destruction…It also takes courage and faith to believe in a future like the one Anne envisions, especially given the lack of evidence that it will come to be. It takes the ability to have a wider, longer timeline than what’s in front of you. It takes humility to believe that what you see isn’t all that’s true.”

   Danielle ET Hansen
   on reading Anne Frank as a mother and scholar of trauma.

4. I was honored to be interviewed in Commonweal Magazine by Heidi Schlumpf, along with

   Shannon K. Evans
   and
   Cameron Bellm
   , about a new generation of Catholic “mom bloggers” (spoiler alert: we really aren’t): “What We Do in Our Homes Really Matters.”

5. Picked up this gem of a book in an Orthodox bookstore and I’m loving it thus far: The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer That Tunes the Heart to God by Frederica Mathewes-Green. Reading anything good lately? Let us know!

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