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by Lori Wilson An Invitation to Your Sacred History There's a practice I first used with high school students on Kairos retreats, teenagers sitting in silence, doing something most of them had never done before: looking back. I asked them to write down the pivotal moments of their lives. Not a journal entry. Not an essay. Just the moments. The ones that changed something. The ones they still carry. And then I asked them to put those moments on a line. Above the line if it was a high. Below...

Will You Come and Follow Me? by Lori Wilson A note before you read: This reflection was written for a peace prayer service in the spring of 2026, during active U.S. and Israeli military conflict with Iran. By the time you are reading this, the specific circumstances may have shifted — a ceasefire may be holding, or the situation may have changed in ways none of us could predict. But the question at the heart of this piece has not changed. And neither has the summons. I draw on the hymn The...

by Lori Wilson What does the Lord require of you? To do justice, to love kindly, and to walk humbly with your God. — Micah 6:8 I have a memory I've never quite been able to put down. I was in first grade. A new girl named Ruth had joined our class. People said she lived in a chicken coop. I knew what a chicken coop was, and I was certain no one actually lived in one. Ruth seemed strange to me. Different. And somehow, in the way that children can be brutally unconscious about these things,...