Despite a 16-month campaign, Trump's concrete policy proposals still leave much to the imagination for those working in social justice ministries, but women religious share worries for the poor, immigrants and refugees, and women.

Notes from the Field - After a long flight from Washington, D.C., with a stopover in Dubai, and an 8-hour drive from the capital Addis Ababa, I finally arrived in the southern city of Dilla, Ethiopia, where I was going to spend the next five to six months. Dilla is one of four communities that the Salesian Sisters have in this country.

"We make friends. We talk to strangers. We pick up garbage. We paint a senior citizen's house. We volunteer. We start donating again. We reach out to friends, neighbors and relatives who voted for the other candidate, and we find the things we agree on."

In 1866, six "brave young sisters" started a school in post-Civil War Nashville. In the years that followed, the sisters' ministry has expanded across the state and helped shape the Catholic church in Tennessee.

The story begins with a request in 2010 from Bishop Emmanuel Trance of the diocese of Catarman, Northern Samar, one of the poorest provinces of the Philippines. Would our sisters, who run the Divine Word Hospital 150 miles away in Tacloban, open another?

Presentation Sr. Cecilia Suwannee Phetpanomporn's vocation took her from Thailand to Australia and back home again, where she now ministers to Karen refugees on the border with Burma.

"When the harvest is plenty, why are so many people left hungry?"

More than 500 clergy and people of faith across religious denominations joined the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and its supporters against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

"We were made to be in relationship with one another. From the very beginning, each one of us was born into a web of relationships. Over time, we grow in these relationships and with each new person we meet, our webs become intertwined. There's no helping it. The true task of our living, though, is to recognize the nature of this entanglement."

One of the greatest blessings of my life and professional career was my education and certification as a Myers-Briggs Master Practitioner. Through understanding and use of the Myers-Briggs, I felt God placed me in a position to grow in self-knowledge while working to develop healthy, constructive relationships in so many corporate applications.