5 Ways to Keep the Faith When You’re Unemployed
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The Pretzel: Brought to You by Lent
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4 Reasons Coloring Is Part of My Prayer Life
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Field of Dreamers
“If you build it, he will come.” This is perhaps the most famous line of the movie Field of Dreams, which is celebrating its 25th…
A Prayer Journey Through Grief
For the past two years I have been juggling prayer and grief. I have lost a friend, my mother, my grandmother and others. It has…
Bear With Me in Prayer
It was never on my to-do list or my hope-to-do list, but I did it. A friend and I visited Grand Teton National Park over…
Changing Seasons, Changing Lives
Fall has long been my favorite season, but this year I enter it with a different set of experiences and thoughts that have changed my…
Facing the Real World Challenges of Substance Abuse
Sarah had hit rock bottom. She was 31 years old and had been charged with her second DUI. A mother of two and engaged to…
Benedictine Life in the 21st Century
Connection. It is something everyone desires and in today’s world it seems to happen 24/7 through the Internet and social media. But there are people…
Faith in Action — Young Adult Volunteers Working With the Poor
Poverty is affecting more and more people in today’s distressed economy. And young adults are volunteering to work with the poor to help alleviate the imposing challenges they face.
Some turn to formal volunteer service organizations (think Catholic Volunteer Network or Jesuit Volunteer Corps). Leah M. Nusse, recruitment and marketing manager for Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest, said that groups like hers play a role in addressing the need that comes with rising poverty levels. (Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau show 46.2 million people or 1 in 6 Americans living in poverty.)
“With an increased need for services and a diminished level of giving and support of the organizations responding to the need, Jesuit Volunteers can help fill a critical void and increase the capacity of our partner organizations to provide their much needed services,” she said.
