Streams in the Wasteland Archives

It’s Time to Reclaim the Sacredness of Our Work

June 30, 2023October 31, 2022

The Scriptures never cast aspersion on the ordinary work of our hands because when human labor is functioning as it should, God’s purposes come to bear upon the world through it and God’s glory is revealed in it. Let me …

How to Change the World Where You Live

June 30, 2023October 18, 2022

There is a threshold we are daily called to—a renouncing of honor and power and prestige on the world’s terms, a renouncing of what spiritual writer Fr. Ronald Rolheiser calls the “pleasure principle” as the guiding factor of our lives,17 …