Lost and Found: Barefoot Before the Burning Bush

Lost and Found: Barefoot Before the Burning Bush By Julian Washio-Collette Editor’s Note: This is the next in a series of blog posts where members of the Faith Collective for Truth and Healing in Adoption write about adoptee, prophet, and Biblical hero Moses. The series will culminate with a live online webinar, “Moses Reframed: Adoption, […]

Illumination

Illumination By Julian Washio-Collette Out of Egypt I called my son. —Hosea 11:1 I returned to the Catholic faith of my Italian ancestors under highly unusual circumstances. In my early thirties, as I pedaled down the Pacific Coast Highway on a bicycle laden with camping gear and all that I needed for long distance travel, […]

Hope Deeper Than Biology

Hope Deeper Than Biology By Julian Washio-Collette There is one thing I ask of the Lord,for this I long:to live in the house of the Lordall the days of my life,to savor the sweetness of the Lord,to behold his temple.—Psalm 27:4 When I was a child, I was taught that God is a tyrannical man […]