by Cheryl Ann Smith
We’re beginning to emerge from our COVID trial by fire. Some people are gingerly, fearfully venturing out the door. Others are springing out, desperate to...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
Many of us sympathize with the poor Rich Young Man in the Gospels (Mk 10:17-22) who ached for what was missing in his life. He...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
Arise—Go!* We’ve heard the story of Abraham so many times that we don’t stop to appreciate how radical this call was—a call to an old man...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
When I was a child, I passed my beginner’s swimming test twice and decided to rest on my laurels. I was content to dog paddle...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
For some reason, my heart keeps returning to a story one of my sisters in the community recently recounted. When she was tiny, her father...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
MH England Recently a friend shared the devastation of losing his beloved wife. He spoke movingly of the waves of grief, loneliness, desolation. Initially he couldn’t...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
MH England Well, we were put in our place—but nicely, as it was God himself gently reminding us that he is the vinedresser and all fruitfulness...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
There is one gospel passage that I fought with from my first encounter. It comes after St. Paul described his anguish over the thorn in...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
Disaster! That’s what I thought as 10,000 of us began the closing procession of the Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool. It had been a glorious three days,...
by Cheryl Ann Smith
About a year and a half ago, we were burgled. A man walked in our front door, up three flights of stairs, past the kitchen...