My young daughter is beginning to understand the holy through the ordinary.
About Nadia Stefko
The Litany of Penitence prepares us for the season to come.
If I want to be able to absorb all the new life Easter has to offer – all the resistance it offers to the powers of sin in our broken world – I need the grace that comes with honest confession and repentance.
My Lenten Discipline: Respecting Death
My hope is that–with one eye on my prayer book, and the other on the compost heap–I can come to respect the work death does for us… the life it enables to take root.
Eating in Place (in a midwestern winter)
Eating in place cares for our community and climate. But it’s tricky when the ground is blanketed by snow.
What does it mean to keep the feast?
Feasting is not the same as gluttony. In fact, thoughtful, Christian feasting is in many ways gluttony’s opposite.
Why We Say Grace
It is by God’s hand, not our own doing, that we are all continually fed.
Our family’s food choices matter because of our faith.
Not long ago, I was a farmer. These days, it seems like a victory just to get dinner on the table.
The Farm in Lent
You visit the earth and water it… You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth. – Psalm 65 During Lent on […]