Rev. Susan Baller-Shepard

Rev. Susan Baller-Shepard

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The award-winning writing and poetry by Susan Baller-Shepard has been appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post "On Faith," Spirituality & Health, Writer’s Digest, and other publications. Susan writes for the religion web site Patheos, where she blogs about faith and life in motion at www.patheos.com/blogs/transient as she completes a non-fiction manuscript. Author of a children's book about identity and adoption entitled, Matching Yu, a PBS program interviewed her about faith and mystery in the adoption journey.

Susan likes to look at what unites people, especially across different traditions and belief systems. Susan is co-founder and editor of www.spiritualbookclub.com with its blog of over 155 interviews entitled, "Real People, Real Lives, Real Spirituality." Likewise, the Spiritual Book Club is a partner with the Charter for Compassion, which addresses the role of compassion in the world’s religions.

With a Master of Social Work and a Master of Divinity, Susan’s worked on global projects in England, Brazil, parts of Africa, China, and Haiti. She loves Rilke, reading theoretical physics books (though she’s lousy at math), and listening to anything Dave Grohl or Andre Benjamin put to music. She’s a parish associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church-Normal, and tweets @yoursbc.

Blog Entries by Rev. Susan Baller-Shepard

Good Friday: Reliable Narrators

(1) Comments | Posted April 7, 2012 | 1:38 AM

Good Friday: Reliable Narrators

"...all the ends of the earth shall remember"--Psalm 22:27

On October 11th and October 13th, I can tell you what was going on at 10:45am and 8:30am, and on December 18th at 1pm, the days I first held my children. I recall these days, hours well,...

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God of Light and Matter: Prayer in the Season of Lent

(21) Comments | Posted March 11, 2012 | 4:13 AM

God of light and matter,

Gazing into fierce dark energy,
here on earth, not that which makes up space,
Gazing into all that darkness, spongy and close,

Piecing out gravitational pulls on us, it's time
to sort what makes and breaks us. Watching
for Doppler shift,...

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Lent as Shot Clock

(2) Comments | Posted February 22, 2012 | 3:01 PM

Please join the HuffPost community in "A Lenten Journey" for reflections throughout Lent, and join our online Lenten community here.

"The adoption of the clock was the most important event in the NBA." --Maurice Podoloff, the NBA's first president

Invariably, it happens. I'll run into someone...

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Forget God. How Are We Helping Haiti?

(6) Comments | Posted January 11, 2012 | 4:10 PM

Circling the second anniversary of Haiti's earthquake, theodicy questions linger, along with unmet pledges to give assistance and aid, to this, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The earthquake mobilized people so quickly, to give, to send medical teams, and two years later, there's been a fizzle, a falling...

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