Horizons

In Horizons, younger sisters reflect on their lives, ministries, spirituality and the future of religious life.

See, I am doing something new! Do you not perceive it?

Jul 23, 2021

Horizons - There's no reason to wait for long-range strategic plans. Beautiful, new iterations of religious life in response to the signs of the times are everywhere in the here and now. We simply have to open our eyes and look around.

Relatives of a 31-year-old man who died after contracting COVID-19 pray after his funeral June 21 at a cemetery provided by the government for victims of the virus in Jakarta, Indonesia. (CNS/Reuters/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)

Pandemic kills millions, while rich spend billions to go to space

by Mumbi Kigutha

Jul 16, 2021

Horizons: Watching multibillionaires spend enormous amounts of money to rocket to space shows the extreme inequality of the global health crisis as many people around the world struggle to access basic needs.

You cannot give what you do not have

by Nicole Trahan

Jul 9, 2021

Horizons - Sometimes my own need for healing is all I can see of myself. What happens when we don't pay attention to our giftedness, when we downplay what is good about who we are?

Visualizing our portal into the future

by Jennifer Wilson

Jul 2, 2021

Horizons - "It's scary to give up what we know, but the abyss is where newness lives." These words jumped out at me as I read Margaret Wheatley's 2002 book Turning to One Another. The words seem like they were made for today.

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See, I am doing something new! Do you not perceive it?

Pandemic kills millions, while rich spend billions to go to space

You cannot give what you do not have

Visualizing our portal into the future

Creating a generational remix for mission

'Go to Joseph': A father for us all

Good Samaritans of India's second COVID-19 wave

Dancing with the Trinity

Common life: We all speak in tongues

The world is racist

Easter questions, learning new ways to be together amid vaccine divisions

The second wave: India fails miserably

Increasing my vocabulary and surviving COVID-19 in 2021

Inhale, exhale, transform

Glorified and wounded: Thomas' encounter with Jesus and gratitude for our bodies

An uneasy Alleluia

Good Friday hope bridges pain and love at the border

If you want peace, let go of control

We have to deal with our trauma from 2020 and earlier

Learning from retreats at Lake Erie for the everyday

Digging into the roots of my racialized childhood

A Midwestern sister retreats to the desert

Lent 2021: What to give up, when you feel like giving up

Why aren't we talking about the farmers' protest in India?

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