Tomo Hillbo

Tomo Hillbo, in a red sweater on a white couch.

Tomo Hillbo serves as the Director of Communications at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. She is from Japan, a graphic designer, singer, mother, and wife of a Mennonite pastor from Sweden.

From Tomo Hillbo

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The torso of an Asian person wearing an apron as they scoop freshly cooked rice out of a rice cooker.

We must unstick our minds if we want to bring change into the world.

Reflection | By Tomo Hillbo | March 8, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: Contemplation, Direct Experience, Food, Growth, Humility, International, Reason, Revelation, Worship
A mother bear with three bear cubs, on a river bank.

The crisis was an opportunity to learn to be fully me and love it, inner turmoil and all. I learned that strength comes from authenticity, never from perfection.

Reflection | By Tomo Hillbo | November 27, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Brokenness, Conscience, Direct Experience, Family, Grief, Healing, Love, Mothers, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Vulnerability
Tall thistle stalks reach up to a blue sky.

It was my inadvertent letting go that made this wild, interdependent beauty possible. And at that very moment, I knew I didn’t need that sort of control anymore.

Reflection | By Tomo Hillbo | September 4, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, Humanism, Letting Go, Nature, Secular, Work

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