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Twenty-five years after she wrote, The Fire in These Ashes, a book on the spirituality of contemporary religious life, Joan Chittister was interviewed recently about her current thoug
In honor of the Feast of Saint Benedict on July 11, four books on monasticism are on sale—three by Joan Chittister and one by Mary Lou Kownacki.
Sister Joan’s most recent online column in the NCR explores the question of whether the Benedictine way of life is an escape from the world or an experience of essence.
“The Kingdom of heaven is within you,” Jesus taught.
Great cultural change — the kind that upends our social givens — always spawns division.
“God is the creator of all the earth, caring for all the nations.” --Ps. 47
Great God, who has told us
“Vengeance is mine,”
save us from ourselves,
save us from the vengeance in our hearts
and the acid in our souls.
Once upon a time, an old Hasidic tale teaches us, the local Jewish congregation was very
It doesn’t take a lot of living to realize that life is more than simply a series of highs and lows.
Re-creation, holy leisure, is the mainstay of the contemplative soul, and the theology of Sabbath is its cornerstone.
From Where I Stand June 10, 2021 NCR
Journalism in the United States is more a drumbeat than a narration.
Now that the country is almost back to pre-pandemic normal, vacations and trips to the beach or seaside can be planned.
The Age, Australia’s newspaper or record, with a circulation of over five million, featured a follow-up news story on Sister Joan’s recent presentation to the Australian Catholic Coalition
Religion is meant to be a light, sign, watermark, path. Religion becomes a map to a place that no one has ever been. But the going on is up to me. And the way I go on is my spirituality.