General

Click here to read an article about Sister Joan that appeared in the Austral

Jessica Pagan, the first participant in the Joan Chittister Writer-in-Residence Program, was with us for a month, June 29—July 28.

If it is true that learning is not so much about obtaining new facts as it is discovering new ways of thinking about them, then it can be safely said that no one has consistently impacted learning

Joan Chittister’s hour-long interview with Dana Lloyd on Soul Sister Conversations about The Time is Now.

Sister Joan Chittister was invited to speak at a conference of Catholic educators in Australia that will take place in 2020, but was then disinvited when it became clear that the archbishop of Melb
No one was more surprised than Sister Joan Chittister when she was presented with a bronze sculpture of her likeness commissioned by Betsy and Bill Vorsheck. The idea was born when the Vorshecks ha

The Time Is Now, the latest book from Joan Chittister, reached number six in the religion category of the national bestseller list dduring the week of June 10, 2019, according to the Natio
Katie Gordon arrived the first weekend in June to begin the 2019 Joan Chittister Internship.

Now and then a book review really “gets it.” The reviewer understands why the author wrote the book and gives a targeted synopsis of the message.
Easter Sunday The old news about Easter is that it is about resurrection. The new news may be that it is not so much about the resurrection of Jesus as it is about our own.
During his speech to Congress on September 24, 2015, Pope Francis singled out four great Americans: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day.
Joan Chittister was one of nearly a hundred prominent men and women from every religious tradition and region of the world to share a favorite prayer and offer their own reflections on its mean

Call to Leadership
by Joan Chittister, OSB Stanford University–Baccalaureate Address
June 16, 2012
Congratulations, class of 2012.

There is a madness abroad in the land, hiding behind the Constitution, brazenly ignoring the suffering of many who, over the years, have died in its defense, and operating under the banner of ratio

What happens when classical spirituality meets modern science? Which of them is “right”? Are the two reconcilable? Or are they doomed to be eternal opposites?