On a drizzly May day, dozens of people gathered in a fire station’s bay in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, in an atmosphere that defied the grey weather. We came for dedication, blessing, gratitude, and remembrance. The reason was a new installation in the station’s eastern wall: a Safe Haven Baby Box, designed so that an infantContinue reading “Celebration as NH gets its first Safe Haven Baby Box”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
“Thérèse: Saint of a Little Way”
My discovery of Frances Parkinson Keyes’s Thérèse: Saint of a Little Way was providential. This warm and affectionate account of the life of Thérèse of Lisieux brought the saint to life for me as no account has done before. This true story is written with a novelist’s sense of drama and an historian’s eye forContinue reading ““Thérèse: Saint of a Little Way””
A new resource for civic engagement
A new resource from the Diocese of Manchester has much that could appeal to all Christians who want to strive for faithful citizenship. “The Resurrection and the Church’s Mission in the Public Square” unites the twin themes of Easter and the role of Christians in civic life. The prayers, meditations, and sourcebook are grouped into weekly sectionsContinue reading “A new resource for civic engagement”
Ellen Kolb 