“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

Bumper stickers can say a lot about a person. I pay attention to bumper stickers, when I walk and when I drive. Some make me think. Others make me angry. Some make me laugh. Others can make me groan and roll my eyes.

GSR Today - Global Sisters Report and National Catholic Reporter editors led a two-day planning and brainstorming gathering at National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company’s headquarters Dec. 1-2 with full-time GSR staff and contributors to plan expanding reporting coverage in Latin America.

For Christians in India and other parts of Asia, dialogue with people of other religions is not a debate or attempt to persuade the other person. Nor is it a forum to compare and contrast one's religion with another. Instead, it is a platform to learn from one another's religious traditions and values, insights and experiences, in a process of sharing.

Sr. Mary Francis Wangare is worried about the young people in Kenya. The Franciscan sister knows that, in Kenya, young people are most at risk of religious radicalization. To combat the threat of radicalization, she wants to create better relationships between the Christians and Muslims.

Student loan debt in the United States is starting to have a noticeable effect on postgraduate vocations. In 2011, the situation had become so conspicuous that the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate and the National Religious Vocations Conference teamed up to measure that impact. The student debt situation is a crisis for the country and the church, but for people called to religious life, it's also easily fixable.

See for Yourself - Recently I was doing some banking at a convenient bank branch, standing dutifully in the queue of rope stanchions. The line moved fairly quickly and soon I found myself in the first position awaiting the next available teller.

From A Nun's Life podcasts - A prayer request from a website visitor calls to mind the idea of miracles, what they inspire in us and how some people can come to it with such confidence.

"Women of the world must unite to help save our planet. We invite women to come visit us and to touch and feel what it is like to live the indigenous way — in harmony with all beings."

Notes from the Field - Isolated mountain life is making my husband and me get uncomfortably close to a lot of other people's garbage.