Sue Stanton

Sue Stanton is a journalist and author of Great Women of Faith: Inspiration for Action. She writes from Ames, Iowa.

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Sign for Wendy's fast food restaurant (Pixabay/Michael Form)

Jan 24, 2026

How I found love at Wendy's

Soul Seeing: Here at a Wendy's, love was patience. Here, love was kindness in the form of a carefully wrapped fish sandwich.

Aug 30, 2025

If it looks important, hold onto it

Soul Seeing: That's the problem with effort. There's no certainty. Only hope.

A bird feeder hanging from a snow-covered tree (Unsplash/Ralph Katieb)

Nov 30, 2024

Why pay attention to sparrows?

Soul Seeing: In the winter, birdwatching can teach us spiritual lessons.

Jul 13, 2024

A parish columbarium offers a quiet place where the soul beholds life

One parish finds renewed — and surprising — life when it adds a columbarium to its grounds.

Sep 30, 2023

Sacred art opens the eye of the beholder

Some sacred art makes us sad, some uplift our spirits, but both work in harmony to inform us of the complexity of life.

The first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Known as Webb's First Deep Field, the cluster is seen in a composite made from images at different wavelengths taken with a near-infrared camera and released July 11, 2022. (OSV News/NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team, Handout via Reuters)

Apr 15, 2023

A Native American prayer practice for when the world feels too big

The Way of the Three Steps prayer practice can alleviate anxiety and help us refocus on the act of giving ourselves fully to God, writes Sue Stanton.

An Israeli border policeman stands guard not far from Ramallah, West Bank, May 17, 2019, as Palestinians make their way to attend Friday prayer at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem's Old City. (CNS/Reuters/Raneen Sawafts)

Jan 07, 2020

The gift of five No. 1 steel knitting needles

Soul Seeing: Knitting has taught me about peace, the kind of peace that is intangible, but more real than a 20-foot-high concrete wall in Palestine, covered in the graffiti of despair and rage.

Aug 08, 2017

Walking on water at the community pool

Soul Seeing: This precious commodity of community water has been set aside just for this purpose — for healing and rejuvenation, to be shared by everyone in this brief time in space.