Susan Bigelow Reynolds is an Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. Her research examines Catholic practice and ecclesiology in situations of social suffering. She is the author of People Get Ready: Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury (Fordham, 2023) and is a contributing writer on religion and public life for Commonweal. She is at work on her second book, an ethnographic study of community stations of the cross.