ISP is thrilled to include Mary Karr in our evening of special guests and storytellers at the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Company of Grace on March 9, 2023. Mary Karr is an award-winning poet, essayist, songwriter, and memoirist from East Texas. She rose to...
Stories of faith are sacred stories. How we speak to God, how we hear God, and where we see God’s face are all part of our own individual sacred relationships. The relationship changes over time; it ebbs and flows, thins out or grows up, twists and turns. All parts of...
by Dawn Davis For me, Advent is about LOVE. Love can be found in the most unlikely places. On a street corner, I saw love. A random stranger stopped to help an elderly woman cross the street. Without hesitation, he greeted her with a smile and escorted her across the...
by Fr. Bill Creed, SJ Recently, I was surprised to be chatting with a guy I had not seen in nearly two decades. He talked about the time twenty years ago when I had known him as a kind of newly reformed gang member. Often he would show up for meetings wearing a tank...
“Recovery means being able to be the authentic self that God created me to be.” -Dawn “What does recovery mean to me? Abundant life!” -Dorothy It’s National Recovery Month, which is close to our hearts here at ISP. We believe recovery is for everyone: “every...
