Covering environment, health, and religion for national and local outlets.
Reflections on climate anxiety, parenting, chronic illness, faith, and more.
Contemplative writing that nurtures the soul.
West Chicago is cleaning up the last of its nuclear contamination. Residents exposed to radiation say ‘It’s not over.’
The First Nations Version of the New Testament places humans within, rather than above, the natural world.
I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.
Learning to be at home and naturalize to this piece of ancestral Potawatomi land that we live on.
When I’m simply present to my own pain, I learn to be present to others’ pain, too.
Like Mary, women the world over have had their childbirth plans disrupted by the pandemic, especially women of color.
Pain, illness, and disability are not marginal to being human, but central.
How to heal a medical system that abandons the vulnerable.
Declining fertility rates and environmental crisis challenge our understandings of family, stewardship, and being a good neighbor.
