I realized this past week that I have never lived at subsistence level.  I know what it means now.             As part of Family Services Coalition, a group of churches and non-profits in the Metrowest area, I  tutor a...

What if we thought of women as the secret threads of this world?  We are, after all, no further ahead of war, and are behind the notion  That hearts and minds can be won over. We are, after all,...

Although we don’t all live in the public eye, I think we all have private and public lives, even many different lives that we show to different publics. There’s the ‘game face’ shown at work. There’s the life shared...

by Rebecca Krzmarzick   This past Saturday, Sacred Threads hosted the first part of our Speaker Series: “Living with Integrity: Balancing the Private and Public Dimensions of Our Lives.” As an intern this year with Sacred Threads, I had the...

Gretchen van Dyck-Daggett, M.A.  What does "love" demand, I ask? To give, and give, and give some more? To forgive, and forgive, and forgive some more?  Who urges me to be more "compassionate"? Is this demanding love from within me, Or is it from some...