Parents learn quickly the power of story as a pacifier. But the stories also shape values. Stories and the lived stories of our example are how we learn our values. Jesus knew the power of stories! Do you really want to change things? Tell a story!
Systemic change
August 6 – Transfiguration… or… Disfiguration?
Transfiguration – Disfiguration. We have a choice. Which light will we walk in?
Sisters Challenging Me To Think More!
No matter what era or even whether we went to a Catholic school, I suspect the teachers we remember most favorably were the ones who taught us to think.
“Seeing” – the Necessary Beginning of Systemic Change
St. Vincent’s pastoral insight was “See, Judge and Act.” It all began with “Seeing”!
“Normal”? Can Mice Teach Us Something?
“Who moved my Cheese” is a parable that describes how people face change. It’s about 4 characters running around in a maze trying to locate their “cheese” or what is important to them.
Rip Van Winkle Waking Up In a “Post-COVID World”
We haven’t been awake to how digital technology is changing the landscape of our lives.
Laudato Si – A Call To Change Our Way of Thinking
Do you think it is possible to capture the essence of Laudato SI in one cartoon or just five words?
What Are Elements Of Structural Racism?
What might be “Socially Acceptable” and “Not Socially Acceptable” elements of “structural” racism.
What Must We As Vincentian Family Do?
With the disciples on the road to Emmaus, we are all struggling to make sense of the past few weeks since the murder of George Floyd.
Corpus Christi and the Case for Change
As you prepare to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, have you ever thought of how it provides the underpinnings for systemic change?
Systemic Change In a Time of National Unrest
“Respect for minorities is to be considered the touchstone of social harmony and the index of the civic maturity attained by a country and its institutions” St. John Paul II
A Wide-Angle Lens On the Cries of the Poor
The earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail” (Rom 8:22)
