Amanda Johnston, the 2024 Texas Poet Laureate, completed our National Poetry Month lecture series by reading some of her favorite poets and her own poetry. She invited us to reflect on poetry's power to engage us in ways that challenge us, provoke us to action, and help us access our deeper wisdom as individuals and as a community. In her interview with Dr. Mona West, Amanda previewed new work and gave insights into an upcoming Texas praise poem project.
12/7/25 Luke's Gospel opens with portraits of several figures who have been waiting faithfully for God's promised Messiah all their lives. We'll meet each...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously observed that "life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" On the eve...
This conversation was recorded in Holy Grounds between Fr. Chuck and Dr. Mona West, contributing editor for the newly published second edition of The...
