“U.S. life expectancy continued to drop in 2021. Decline in U.S. life expectancy was greater than for peer countries in 2020 and again in 2021.” This recent headline in The Washington Post grabbed my attention. “The life expectancy gap between the U.S. and its peer countries is now over five years,” according to Laudan Aron, […]
Faith Renewed
“All of us know what it’s like to lose our faith. We’ve been betrayed by a relationship, let down by our church community or convinced that life just won’t get better.” – From the March 2022 Renewing Faith Soul Matters packet The poem below (author unknown) captures that sense of vulnerability when our faith is […]
Cultivating Awe
One of my favorite Christmas gifts this year was a small, bound book entitled “One Line a Day.” The giver of this gift included a message regarding the difficult year it had been, and a comment from an article she read in The New York Times about “languishing.” One of the suggestions included in the […]