What if talking about death helped us live better? Explore Jessica Catlin’s transformative approach to death and healing.
About George Cassidy Payne
The Discipline of Accompaniment: A Catholic Counselor’s Work
Exploring faith, trauma, and healing through compassionate counseling
Can faith and therapy coexist? Discover how Catholic counseling shapes healing, meaning, and accompaniment.
Seeing Jesus in the Machinery of Violence
How the story of Jesus exposes the ethics of modern violence.
Can we see Jesus in today’s violence? Explore Seeing Jesus in the Machinery of Violence and its powerful ethical challenge.
The Vigil of Care: Kathryn Jenzer and the Courage to Stand Beside Suffering
A powerful story of compassion, resilience, and standing beside patients in their most vulnerable moments.
Can courage be quiet? Discover Kathryn Jenzer nursing courage in compassionate patient care and advocacy.
Breaking the Spell: Janice Selbie on Leaving Faith and Reclaiming a Life
A powerful journey from belief to self-discovery and healing.
Leaving religion and reclaiming life—what does it take? Discover Janice Selbie’s journey through faith, loss, and healing.
“Engaged Mysticism and Cultural Renewal”: A Conversation With Rev. Dr. Aizaiah G. Yong, Ph.d.
A dialogue on spirituality, trauma, activism, and the contemplative path in modern life
What is engaged mysticism? Rev. Dr. Aizaiah G. Yong explores spirituality, trauma healing, and compassion in modern life.
When ‘Operations’ Kill Children: How Sanitized War Language Conceals the Human Cost
How political language masks the true human cost of modern warfare
Can words hide war’s horrors? Explore how war language euphemisms mask civilian deaths and obscure accountability in modern conflicts.
The Radical Power of Being Seen: Mary Abbott on Healing and Transforming Schools
How validation, trauma-informed care, and sustainable self-care can rebuild educator wellbeing and school culture
Can validation prevent educator burnout? Discover how trauma-informed leadership is transforming schools.
What Medicine Misses When It Refuses to Listen
Dr. Maria Rovito on endometriosis, invisible pain, and the ethics of belief.
What happens when pain can’t be seen? This article reveals how medicine misses endometriosis by refusing to listen to invisible pain.
Arresting the Witness: Don Lemon, The DOJ, and the Chilling of Press Freedom
How arresting journalists for witnessing protest threatens the First Amendment and democratic accountability
Does fear justify arresting journalists? The DOJ’s case against Don Lemon raises urgent questions about press freedom and witnessing.
The Survivor’s Toolkit for a Narcissistic State
What domestic violence survivors know about power.
What can domestic violence survivors teach us about power? A survivor-informed framework for recognizing and resisting narcissistic governance.
The Art of Belonging: How Ana Gabriela Turns Walls Into Stories
How one Vancouver muralist transforms public spaces into inclusive, lasting narratives.
How does art create belonging? Discover how Ana Gabriela, a mural artist, turns public walls into powerful stories of community.
Norma Peterson and the Quiet Revolution of Documenting Abuse
From family tragedy to global advocacy, Norma Peterson turned grief into action, creating a lifeline for survivors of domestic violence through the evidentiary abuse affidavit.
How can documenting abuse save lives? Norma Peterson’s journey shows how evidence, hope, and action protect survivors.
Circles, Care, and the Architecture of Equity: Joshua Abiazar in Conversation
From the bronx to the Dominican Republic and beyond, Joshua Abiazar creates spaces where empathy, equity, and community flourish.
How does Joshua Abiazar practice restorative justice? Explore circles, equity, and healing-centered leadership rooted in empathy.
A Historian Formed by Faith: Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego on Memory, Citizenship, and Hope
Blending devotion and scholarship, Dinnella-Borrego offers a vision of education and public memory grounded in dignity, justice, and the search for God in all things.
Blending devotion and scholarship, Dinnella-Borrego offers a vision of education and public memory grounded in dignity, justice, and the search for God in all things.
Expendable Lives: The R-Word, Trump, and the Slow March Toward Dehumanization
How political language, policy erosion, and history converge to threaten disability rights
When leaders use dehumanizing language, who pays the price? Explore disability dehumanization, power, and the erosion of civil rights.