Christina Neumann serves at St. Anne's Guest Home, an assisted living-type facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where she helps in a variety of roles, including receptionist, sacristan, activities and as an occasional personal care aide. She also manages the web page for the facility, writes their weekly blog and edits their resident newsletter.
This story appears in the Making Peace feature series. View the full series.
July 10, 2017
For Dominican Srs. Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte and others like them, the U.N. agreement — which nuclear states like the U.S. have said they "do not intend to sign" — is a milestone in activists' long, vigilant but often lonely efforts.
July 10, 2017
Three congregations of the Sisters of St. Joseph, by different paths, have come back to including agrégées into their vocations. Agrégées were part of the first St. Joseph communities, organized in LePuy, France, around 360 years ago. Now communities in Concordia, Kansas; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Springfield, Massachusetts, have such members again. Global Sisters Report takes a look at these "new" forms and emerging ways of religious life.
by GSR Staff
July 10, 2017
"When we live in community we carry one another, we bear one another’s burdens, we lift one another up. It’s risky. Sometimes we fall together and rise together. But there are always hands, reaching out, reaching up, holding, holding on."
July 7, 2017
On July 9, the Pennsylvania sisters — along with the community organization Lancaster Against Pipelines — will hold an interfaith service to dedicate an outdoor chapel built in the construction path of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline.
This story appears in the See for Yourself feature series. View the full series.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
July 7, 2017
See for Yourself - At a walk-in salon, I got an expert haircut and an inspiring story of shaky beginnings eventually turning out OK.
by Nicole Trahan
Contributor
July 7, 2017
The last time I spoke the words of the Pledge of Allegiance, I was in high school. It was been over 25 years now, and while I currently work in a school in which the pledge is recited each day, I still do not say the pledge. These days, however, my reasons have grown more nuanced.
by GSR Staff
July 7, 2017
"Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it's wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy."
This story appears in the Web of Life feature series. View the full series.
by Tracy L. Barnett
Contributor
July 6, 2017
For 10 days in the tropical rainforests of Darién and the urban landscape of Panama City, scientists and academics converged with theologians, sisters, writers and spiritual seekers to explore the places where ecology, spirituality and science intersect in the context of the web of life. Now that I'm back home in Mexico, Panama lingers in my memory.
July 6, 2017
From A Nun's Life podcasts - A busy mother of young children wonders how she can adapt "nun prayer practices" to help when she's feeling distant from God.