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For over a decade, Britt Luby worked in higher education, serving students and learning how faith takes shape in the rhythms of campus life. Her vocation eventually led her to hospital chaplaincy, where she spent nights on call and days accompanying families through moments that were fragile, holy, and deeply human. Those years taught her how to listen, how to sit still in uncertainty, and how to honor the quiet courage of others.
Today, Britt is a full-time nursing student, returning to school with the same curiosity and reverence that shaped her chaplaincy work. Nursing has expanded her sense of vocation, allowing her to integrate spiritual attentiveness with clinical practice to imagine new ways of tending to the whole person. She studies with the intensity of someone who knows exactly why she’s there.
Britt completed her MA in Religion (with an emphasis on Ethics and Social Theory) at the Graduate Theological Union in conjunction with the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA. Her thesis, Our Lady of Tickfaw: A Look at the Motivations of Pilgrims to Alleged Marian Apparition Sites, sits quietly (and likely unread) in the GTU Library. The research gave her an excuse to explore many of her favorite things: Mary, pilgrims, Cajun culture, Louisiana, and her grandparent’s porch.
In 2013, Britt and her husband moved to Morocco to serve as US Peace Corps Volunteers. You can read more about that season here. The experience continues to shape her committment to interfaith cooperation, hospitality, and cross-cultural storytelling.
Her essays have appeared in America Magazine, National Catholic Reporter, Baptist News Global, and other publications. When she is not studying or writing, Britt is usually chasing her two children, tending to her garden, celebrating female friendship, or watching television with her partner. She maintains- with conviction- that we are living in a golden age of television.
She lives in Texas under the shade of old pecan trees, and she writes about the places where Catholic identity meets daily life – the nursing classroom, the hospital hallway, the family dinner table, and the unexpected grace of ordinary days.
