An Open Letter to Pope Francis
A letter I sent to Pope Francis in yesterday’s mail. I hope he reads it. April 13, 2015 His Holiness Pope Francis Apostolic Palace 00120 Vatican City Most Holy Father, I am writing to you with...
View ArticleBeyond Church Part 1
For twenty-some years, I have been hounded by the vision of a different (original) way of doing church. I was inspired by my personal experiences with small faith communities, contemplative prayer and...
View ArticleBeyond Church Part 2 – What People Really Need
Somewhere around 1995, I was hired by the local Catholic Campus Ministry (Newman Center) to implement and facilitate a program for adults joining the Catholic faith. Developing the curriculum and...
View ArticleWhen I Stopped Believing in God
Last night, while facilitating a class on spiritual gifts, I realized that somewhere in the past several years, I had stopped believing in God. This realization struck me like a two-ton brick to my...
View ArticleThe Cyclical Nature of Grief
Yesterday, and old grief was triggered in me, along with all the symptoms that have come along with this grief – deep sorrow, rage, hatred, anxiety, panic, trembling, emotional and intellectual...
View ArticleShining the Spotlight on Clergy Sexual Abuse
I was not sexually abused by a priest, but I know and have counseled many people who were. I was not sexually abused by a priest, but I worked in the Church when the insidious legacy of priests...
View ArticleIs Lauri Lumby Still Catholic?
Google Analytics cracks me up. Apparently two different people found my website this morning by typing in the very same question, “Is Lauri Lumby Still Catholic?” My daughter and I shared a laugh over...
View ArticleSurviving Ecclesial (Church) Trauma
Lauri Ann Lumby shares her story of being raised Catholic, receiving her vocational calling and training in the Church, ministering in the Church and then being abandoned by the Church. Her story is...
View ArticleThere Was Good in the Old – an Ode to Notre Dame
Yesterday, in a discussion with the TWYH online community in which I am a member, we were sharing the deep sorrow we had all been feeling before hearing the news of Notre Dame burning. Before the event...
View ArticleRe-Visioning Church
(What We Used to Call Church) Having been raised Catholic, completed nearly 12 years of Catholic school, receiving my ministry training through the Catholic Church and then working for 15 years as a...
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