by Kate Berkey | Apr 19, 2022 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Stumbling to Jesus
I am a doer and a worker who comes from a long line of doers and workers. We are pioneers and pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps kind of people who value long days and even longer hours. My ancestors are farmers and hustlers in their own right—providing for large...
by Kate Berkey | Feb 18, 2022 | Stories and Other Things From Chicago
I live in this beautifully diverse and densely populated neighborhood on the north side of Chicago where the government resettles refugees and immigrants make their new home. Chicagoans know it as Little India. When you walk the streets of my neighborhood, you don’t...
by Kate Berkey | Oct 15, 2021 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Stories and Other Things From Chicago
Most of the time, I am a fish out of water in this neighborhood. I am the minority in a city and country where I am the majority. I speak one language in a place where most of my neighbors have at least two or three or six on their list. Often, I step into people’s...
by Kate Berkey | Apr 2, 2020 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Stumbling to Jesus
Disruptive—that’s how I would describe these weeks. As the coronavirus claims more lives and plans than we expected, we wonder when all of this will be over. There are places we need to go, things we need to do. This strange season is a welcomed sabbath for...
by Kate Berkey | Jan 10, 2020 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Stumbling to Jesus
I don’t think I imagined my life quite this way, and I love that. Five years ago, I started my final semester of college. I wrote about marbles in a jar, their finite number mirroring the days which had become so very normal to me. During my senior year, my...