In the 1980’s, long before Bono’s “One” Initiative and the UN Millenium Development Goals brought extreme poverty into worldwide focus, 25 year old Jacqueline Novogratz left a cushy Wall Street banking job and stepped onto a plane to Kigali, Rwanda with an eye on changing the world. Fast forward more than two decades and a…

I kicked off my first Lent with great enthusiasm and expectation. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was that I expected, but I imagined it would be difficult to spend 40 days stretching the boundaries of comfort and routine to focus on my spiritual life without it having an impact. I even signed up to…

He is Risen. Those three words are showing up everywhere today. Before heading out to church and back to back feasts with family, (not sure if it is traditional, but I’m already full thinking about all of the food on our agenda today) I wanted to read the story in full. So, without commentary, I…

You open your eyes slowly, turning from your side to your back and struggling to focus exhausted eyes on the exposed rafters of the roof above you. “Was it a dream?” you ask the air, as you shift mind and body restlessly in an attempt to separate fact from fantasy. The events of the previous…

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