Gretchen Crowder

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Gretchen Crowder has served as a campus minister and Ignatian educator for the Jesuit Dallas community for the last 15 years. She is also a freelance writer and speaker and is the host of Loved As You Are: An Ignatian Podcast. She has a B.S. in mathematics and a M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame as well as an M.T.S. from the University of Dallas. She resides in Dallas, TX, with her husband, three boys, and an ever-growing number of pets.

Media

Auditing My Phone Use for Lent

On the first night of a three-day senior retreat, a student stopped me to say, “I wasn’t too happy when you took away our phones earlier.” As he took...

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Sports

A Lesson in Hope Before a Football Game

What is the reason for our hope? Is hope linked to a solitary outcome, or is it based on something deeper? Last year was one of ups and downs for...

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Discernment

Invitation to Harmony

In 2024, God invited me to be bold. When I started the year, I thought that the invitation to be bold was about taking audacious steps out of my...

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Reflections

Taking Advance Gratitude Further

At the start of this school year, I wrote about the desire to practice something new that I called “Advance Gratitude,” or pausing in gratitude for the graces and...

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Reflections

While the Game Unfolds

I am a lifelong Notre Dame football fan. It started when my dad had us watch the games every Saturday growing up, and my dedication to the team (and...

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Reflections

Noticing the Lasts

A friend of mine had a tradition during college that started when we met my sophomore year. On the last night on campus, he would stop by my dorm...

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We Don’t Hope Alone

Blessed Are Those in the Crowd

Comfort in Old Things

The Call to Co-Labor

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