by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Mar 23, 2018 | Fostering Faith, Living the Liturgical Year, The Christian Imagination
Where we live, its fish-fry season. If you live in the Americas, Europe, or Australia, you might also notice Friday fish-n-chip specials or the filet-o-fish featured at McDonalds. If you were wondering why fish seems so popular in February and March, it’s because this...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Sep 12, 2016 | Raising Christian Kids
It’s an unavoidable fact of parenting. Whether you are an attachment parent, co-sleeping parent, a free-range parent, a helicopter parent, a traditional parent, a non-ideological parent, you are doing something wrong. Guaranteed. Mothers, in particular, don’t like to...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | May 7, 2015 | Reading Well, The Bible
I have often wanted to ask my theologian-friends if narratives can exist apart from sin. I use the word sin because of its suggestion of brokenness, of problems, of doubt, disillusionment, and despair. Another way to ask the question is this: can we have stories in a...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jan 8, 2015 | Fostering Faith
It is the dead of winter in Indiana, and South Bend last week set a new record for the most snow in a 24-hour period. I shoveled our front sidewalks after it stopped and the snow was at the middle of my thigh. While such shoveling can be rough, the dead of winter is...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 2, 2014 | The Christian Imagination
Recently U2 released its new album Songs of Innocence to everyone who uses iTunes. It was free, automatic, a gift. While there is much to say about this deeply personal album, much to say about the publicity-stunt release, and much to say about the corporate alignment...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 17, 2014 | Raising Christian Kids, The Christian Imagination
As a little girl, I loved Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Ponies. My daughter has, somehow, developed a similar love thanks to the ubiquitous marketing that puts such characters—or Disney Princesses—on everything. But, when she made me a lovely picture this week at...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jun 26, 2014 | The Christian Imagination
Marcelo Gleiser, a theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology, nonlinear physics, and astrobiology, has a new book out, (The Island of Knowledge, The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning) reviewed yesterday on NPR. I have not yet read the book but it...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 28, 2013 | Living the Liturgical Year, Raising Christian Kids
While shopping today, my three-year-old pointed to a Christmas tree and asked, “why can’t people wait for Christmas”? She didn’t ask it critically but out of curiosity, interrogating the expression “oh, they just can’t wait for Christmas” more than the theology. It...
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