Mercy in the Wounds

After Easter, there is a silence.  Christ has vanished at the breaking of the bread and I must find new ways to see him.
My friendships are changing; what once felt like sharing in each others’ lives now feels one-sided,… Read More

Celebrating Easter with my Peeps

Be advised: This post is not about the true meaning of Easter.
Why yes, we are still in the octave of Easter, and yes, there is a way to celebrate using those three-day old Peeps.  It’s called [drumroll, bated breath,… Read More

A Resurrection Kind of Love

She was ice-skating, and she fell.  He picked her up.  That’s how my grandma and grandpa met.
I ask her to tell the story often.  “These great big arms just swooped down and grabbed me,” she chuckles, “and then he… Read More

Holy Saturday and Dyeing Eggs

Today I am tucked in bed listening to birdsong and thinking of dyeing eggs.  But I haven’t started yet.  See, no one is around to dye eggs with me.  They have all gone away, two to Louisiana and two to… Read More

I Made You a Good Friday Mix Tape

Sometimes, silence is best.  But if music will help you settle into Good Friday and Holy Saturday, here are my recommendations (all but one are available on iTunes).
MODERN MUSIC
Jesus Paid it All / Artist: Fernando Ortega / Album:… Read More

The Ease of My Reach

Recently in a senior religion class, I used Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam to give students a visual example of the ‘gap’ between God and self we sometimes feel during prayer.  I described the miniscule space between the two fingers… Read More

Where Lenten Failings Leave Us

The good news – I’m not a hypocrite.
The bad news – I’ve broken my Lenten promise in front of almost 40 twelve-year-olds.
The good news – this is a cause for…joy?
Being caught red-handed by 7th graders is like… Read More

George, the Lenten Nark

It is the kind of hot Georgia afternoon that makes me wish I were still a Midwesterner.  I have two hours of seventh grade religion to look forward to, and an extra dollar in my pocket, so I swing by… Read More

4 Reasons St. Joseph is Underrated

St. Joseph seems to be regularly regarded as the historical third wheel to Mary and Jesus, making guest appearances on funeral holy cards and eternally smelling of lilies.  Bo-ring.
Indeed, Joseph may be the most underrated saint (besides Magnus of… Read More

Miseria, Misericordia, Magnificat

Today was ‘Classics Day’ at our high school, which involved the Latin Department Chair donning a toga and laurel wreath and quizzing students on Roman mythology, declensions, and other roads leading to Rome.  (Thankfully the afternoon Teacher Pie-In-The-Face event did… Read More

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About Jane Sloan

Jane Sloan

B. Jane Sloan is a writer and high school theology teacher from Atlanta, GA. In addition to blogging for Catholic Exchange, she has been published in Our Sunday Visitor, Notre Dame Magazine and the literary journal Omnibus.


Jane graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2007 with a B.A. in theology and philosophy. In 2009, she graduated with an M. Ed. from Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education. In 2009 Jane made a 500-mile pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She spent summer 2010 as an intern planting vegetables and baking bread at the Abbey of Regina Laudis OSB in Bethlehem, CT. In 2011 she was present among the millions at the beatification of Blessed John Paul II. She is currently working toward her M.A. in Theology.


Jane owns a light blue 1957 Smith Corona typewriter. She sometimes wishes she were P.G. Wodehouse or Flannery O'Connor. She hasn't written any books yet, but she plans to, if you'll read them.


Follow her on Twitter @SloaND0709. Follow her other blog on all-natural eating at www.thesavagepalate.blogspot.com