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Jessica Bratt

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Requiem

Below, I want to share with you the homily I offered at my grandmother’s memorial service, six months ago now, just shy of her 94th

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Daylight and darkness

Good morning, on this annual Monday where our clocks have been turned back for a day but our body clocks struggle to catch up. The

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God on the Brain

Over the weekend I heard Dr. Andrew Newberg speak; he’s a neuroscientist who researches the effects of religious experience on our brains. Newberg coined the

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Race and imagination

In the spirit of Black History Month and the year-round realities to which it draws our attention, I want to share a story from a

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Losing it

It’s been almost two weeks since my entire backpack was stolen from a locked office in one of the hospitals where I work occasional chaplain

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New beginnings

This poem by the late Irish poet John O’Donohue showed up in my inbox last week (via emails from Inward/Outward, a wonderful daily dose of

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A sense of urgency

A few months ago,  early one morning, on my way into one of the hospitals where I work occasional chaplain shifts, I was making the

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All I want for Advent  

“A deliberate tension must be built into our practice of the Advent season. Christ has come, and yet not all things have reached completion. While

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