Sister Emily TeKolste featured in Global Sisters Report

“And I understand why it’s hard to stay hopeful. The damages are real. People will lose their lives. People are already being torn out of their communities, and it will only get worse as ICE’s budget just got a massive increase. Sometimes I get lost in those realities, too. 

“Yet I stay hopeful because I see reasons to be hopeful every day. I see people waking up. Our local “No Kings” rally on June 14 had well over twice as many people attend as the “Hands Off” rally did just a few months before — nearly 1,000 people showed up in Terre Haute, Indiana.

“I see people jumping in to learn new skills, to do things they’ve never done before because they know that the stakes are so high that they have to do something.

“I’ve seen community threads wind tighter as people gather to grieve, to build, to fight and to celebrate.”

Read more of Sister Emily TeKolste’s most recent piece in Global Sisters Report, “Practicing the active virtue of hope in a time of crisis.”