--- title: Articles – Church Life Journal | Deborah Organ description: Deborah Organ has been a Catholic preacher for 35 years and has taught homiletics in English and Spanish. She currently teaches Practical Theology at St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, Minnesota and has her clinical practice in the treatment of trauma at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in South Minneapolis. She is the Fall 2016 Marten Program in Homiletics Visiting Fellow at Notre Dame. --- Search [![churchlife](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Churchlife_Aug2016_Theme/Images/church-life-journal-white-horizontal-1.png)](http://churchlife.nd.edu/) - [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays) - [Articles](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles) - [Blog](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post) - [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/) All posts filed under: ARTICLES ## Deborah Organ ![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Organ-Deborah-pic.jpg) Deborah Organ has been a Catholic preacher for 35 years and has taught homiletics in English and Spanish. She currently teaches Practical Theology at St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, Minnesota and has her clinical practice in the treatment of trauma at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in South Minneapolis. She is the Fall 2016 Marten Program in Homiletics Visiting Fellow at Notre Dame. ### Recent Posts [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Organ-crop.jpg)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/08/08/from-fear-to-love) ## [From Fear to Love: Preaching in these Troubling Times](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/08/08/from-fear-to-love) Published by [Deborah Organ](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/deborah-organ) “Are the shootings and the wars going to happen here, Mom?” The little girl asked her mother after hearing yet another violent news story. Nice, Paris, Turkey, Syria, Dallas, Minneapolis . . . and, unfortunately, the list goes on of places suffering the complexity and heartbreak of eruptions of often unpredictable violence. Where next? We may wonder, along with the little girl, when and how terror... 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