Rebecca Collins Jordan

Young Voices: Amid rising hospitalizations and wildfire smoke, our current times call for action that builds community. When individual actions are not enough, we must join with others to make the impossible possible.

Young Voices: Christ's resurrection is more than a symbol of faith; it's a model of rebirth for all of us. It shows the resilience of God — and of God in humanity — during a time of violence and turmoil.

Young Voices: As we go through these last few months of waiting, let us remember the uncovering that we collectively witnessed this year.

Young Voices: "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for; the conviction of things not seen." The chapter in Hebrews goes on to outline the painstakingly persistent faith of Genesis' heroes, faith taken by many people throughout many ages.

Book review: Back-Pocket God does not tell the usual story of hostility or intergenerational warfare about young adults and faith. Rather, the study suggests that young people have no ill feeling toward organized religion, but no need for it either.

Young Voices: Injustice stands despite many people's best efforts, seemingly powerless against an increasingly autocratic wall of policies and institutions shielded by eroding federal transparency.

Young Voices: As a white woman who grew up in liberal circles in the Pacific Northwest, I have spent recent years wondering if white liberals rejected the devil for the right reasons.

Young Voices: We're in the throes of an election that could sink or float the faith of a generation of progressives. As much as I am nervous to admit it, I think what the Democratic Party needs is the idealism of Ulysses.

Young Voices: Shut into my home all day except for a brief walking respite, I have come to know these walls and windows well. And I have started to reframe my reality as a temporary monastic calling.

Young Voices: I've stopped looking for solutions. This is a story about the people who, whether they know it or not, have planted mysterious and fleeting seeds of hope.

Young Voices: I know I am not the only one for whom the West Coast was an inspiration and a vocational challenge, and today I wish to recognize a few of those people — Catholic women whose stories might mean little to most, but everything to me.

Their poetic imaginings of Bleecker Street, Seventh Avenue  and other New York landmarks transformed the landscape of my inner spiritual life.