Melissa Musick Nussbaum

My Table is Spread: It is difficult to write an act of contrition or examination of conscience that feels true to a child's experience and that respects the nature and understanding of a young child. But we have to try. God's forgiveness is here. 

My Table Is Spread: What I'm thinking about in these days before Ash Wednesday is how most of what I have learned about a right relationship with God has come from taking care of small children.

My Table Is Spread: It is a short walk from the kitchen to the driveway to introduce myself and to encourage a book browser to become a book owner.

My Table Is Spread: For Christians, it is worth considering that Jesus was born into a dangerous world, just like ours. Shortly after Jesus' birth, King Herod set out to find the baby and kill him.

My Table Is Spread: It's November, when the church asks us to remember them all, those who crowd the empty chairs of our homes and our hearts. It is a gift we should not refuse. 

My Table Is Spread: It is not a religious fundamentalism that is fueling the surrogacy industry, but rather a consumer culture in which children are simply another commodity.

My Table is Spread: When Pope Francis exhorted priests to be "shepherds living with the smell of the sheep," he might have been thinking of a priest like Holy Cross Fr. Bill Wack, whom the pope recently chose to become the bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida.

My Table Is Spread: If you've heard of Tulia, it's probably because of a 1999 drug bust that jailed about a 10th of the black population. But there's also a story of work for justice.