by Craig Nash | Sep 9, 2025 | Opinion
When Rebecca Sue (Becky) Norris wrote to her sister in tears and said, “I tried to read your book, but it was boring,” Kathleen Norris understood the dig at her 1994 memoir, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, to be an outpouring of jealousy. She saw the tears as an...
by Erin Parks | Jul 21, 2025 | Opinion
Writing the “Faith and Fidgeting” series on living with neurodivergence in sacred spaces has led me to reflect on a pressing question: How can we reimagine church? Accessible church spaces are important for everyone, not just disabled or neurodivergent folks. Our...
by Amy Jacober | Jul 2, 2025 | Analysis
Disabilities do not care what your faith tradition is. Faith traditions, however, have a long and complicated history of caring for those with disabilities. Without going into a long history, faith communities have varied in celebrating and venerating those with...
by Erin Parks | Jun 13, 2025 | Opinion
Advice and teaching for living a Christian life are almost universally the same: attend church, read your Bible and pray. This “holy trinity” of spiritual practice is often communicated to be most effective when practiced regularly. But what happens when “regular” or...
