Hello! I’m Alissa French Case, a lay minister, writer, mother of four, (accidental) homeschool educator, and wife to the long-haired skater boy from high school who I swore I’d never marry. He’s a Theologian at Harvard University now, and we have a lot of nerdy fun collaborating on projects together (including the Little Way Lectionary).
We live in Boston with our four children, three pets, two minivans, and a gratuitous amount of theological degrees. My BA is in Biblical Studies, with a Masters of Theological Studies from Duke Divinity School.
My own faith journey has taken me through Evangelical non-denominational, Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Anglican, and Catholic institutions. I have been deeply shaped by each of them, and hope Little Way Chapel is a space that brings Christians of all confessions together under one Lord, one faith, one baptism.
Little Way Chapel is a space for parents, ministers, catechists, educators and individuals of all Christian denominations to find tools and practices for following Jesus. These resources largely follow the church’s calendar using the Revised Common Lectionary and are written for use at home as well as congregational settings.
Our patron saint here at the Chapel of the Little Way is St. Thèrése of Lisieux, known popularly as “The Little Flower.” St. Thèrése was a child when she vowed to join the Carmelite sisters of Lisieux, and spent her short lifetime developing a theology of spiritual childhood by embodying Jesus’ words from the gospel of Matthew: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (18:3). Thèrése strived for holiness, for sainthood, not through grand acts of sacrifice and piety, but through simple, ordinary obedience in mundane routines of daily life. She called this path to sainthood “the little way to Jesus.”