Shannon Evans is NCR spirituality and culture editor and the author of Feminist Prayers for My Daughter and Rewilding Motherhood. She speaks on topics related to parenthood as a spiritual practice and the contemplative creative life. Follow her on Twitter at @shannonkayevans.
Joyce Rupp hopes her new book will show readers that they are not alone in what they experience and find encouragement and inspiration to face what seems daunting for them or their loved ones.
NCR's news editor and Vatican correspondent sat down with contributor Sr. Rose Pacatte in Rome to discuss their experiences of visiting the body of the late Pope Benedict XVI, and to reflect on his complicated legacy.
Dorothy Day "loved people and they annoyed her to no end. She loved the masses and yet craved solitary time. She smoked constantly until she was in her 40s and gave all her possessions away for the entirety of her life."
Watch: NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters sat down in Rome with San Jose Bishop Oscar Cantu and theologian Cathleen Kaveny to discuss the importance of Pope Francis' decision to promote McElroy to this esteemed position.
Book excerpt: Could motherhood rewild itself into a healing and nourishing space in which to dwell? Dare I hope that if freed from the meddling of outside hands, my soul could be its own self-sustaining ecosystem?
