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.

Discernment

Invitation to Be Bold

In January 2023, the Lord invited me to hope. At the time, I faced a long journey ahead of rebuilding myself, body and soul, so I was a little...

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Reflections

Loved as I Am

For years now, I have been working on accepting and internalizing a particular truth about God: that God loves me as I am, no matter what. This has occupied...

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Poetry

I Must Release Control

I must release control. These four words are some of the most challenging words for me to consider. Control is, after all, what has always kept me sane. I know...

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Reflections

I Tried to Hide

Psalm 139 always makes me a little nervous. The psalmist begins: “O LORD, you have searched me and known me. / You know when I sit down and when...

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Spirituality

Spiritual Conversations at the Grocery Store

On Saturday mornings, much like the rest of the week, I’m an early riser. I like to get up, have my coffee in my quiet house, and get to...

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Reflections

The Small Rectangle

Before school let out for the summer, a few colleagues and I gathered for a mini-retreat to close out the year. At the beginning of the retreat, our director...

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The Audacity of Desire

The Audacity of Creating Something Beautiful

The Audacity of Friendship with God

The Audacity of Co-Laboring with God

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