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While living in Belgium, in 1982, Fr. Ron was invited by the Canadian newspaper “Western Catholic Reporter”, to write a feature column. Calling the column, “In Exile”, Fr. Ron is often asked about the meaning behind the title.
“Superficially, I was living abroad and was young enough and full enough of youthful grandiosity to like the feel of being an outsider. When you’re young, it can seem romantic, noble even, to be the one who’s gone from home, missed by your loved ones, seemingly on some heroic journey. Of course you’re only trying to get some university degree, hardly the stuff of heroic journeys; but that was before instant communication and the Internet, when you didn’t fly across the Atlantic every holiday. It was my first time being a long way from home, I was young, alone, restless, and it was nice to luxuriate a bit in that loneliness.
For far more significant reasons, I chose this title because all of us live in exile in a real way. As St. Paul puts it, we see as “through a glass, darkly”, through an enigma, separated always partially from God and each other. We experience some love, some community, some restfulness, but never these in their fullness. Karl Rahner once said “in the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we learn that here, in this life, there is no finished symphony.”
December 2, 2024 - Vows We Don’t Choose
November 25, 2024 - Heaven Isn’t the Same for Everyone
November 18, 2024 - The Tower of Babel
November 11, 2024 - Lighter Thoughts on a Heavy Subject
November 4, 2024 - Bread and Wine
October 28, 2024 - A Universal Creed
October 21, 2024 - A Double Primordial Branding Within
October 14, 2024 - Mature Love or Just Going through the Motions?
October 7, 2024 - Refugees, Immigrants, and Jesus
September 30, 2024 - Our Unfinished Symphony
September 23, 2024 - When is Fear Healthy?
September 16, 2024 - Being Rich, But in a Hurry
September 9, 2024 - Our Real Legacy – The Energy We Leave Behind
September 2, 2024 - Leaving Slavery and Pharaoh Behind
August 26, 2024 - Dark Memory
August 19, 2024 - Celibacy – What’s to Be Said?
August 12, 2024 - Loving Your Own Church and Your Neighbor’s Church as Well
August 5, 2024 - What Shapes a Soul?
July 29, 2024 - The Road Less Travelled
July 22, 2024 - The Illusion of Our Own Goodness
July 15, 2024 - Keeping the Sabbath
July 8, 2024 - Sacred Permission to be in Agony
July 1, 2024 - Praying When It Seems Useless
June 24, 2024 - What Has Been Given You to Carry?
June 17, 2024 - Giving One’s Death Away
June 10, 2024 - Ordinary Time
June 3, 2024 - We Are Better and Worse Than We Think
May 27, 2024 - Losing a Loved One to Suicide
May 20, 2024 - Reacting to Criticism
May 13, 2024 - The Mystery of the Ascension
May 6, 2024 - An Invitation to a Liturgical Prayer
April 29, 2024 - Who Are Our Real Faith Companions?
April 22, 2024 - Civility Has Left the Building
April 14, 2024 - God’s Exuberant Energy
April 8, 2024 - Go Crazy or Turn Holy
March 31, 2024 - God’s Silence in the Face of Evil
March 24, 2024 - The Passion of Christ as Passivity
March 18, 2024 - Recommending a New Book
March 11, 2024 - Forever Ahead of our Souls
March 4, 2024 - Aging as a Natural Monastery
February 26, 2024 - Reindeer Games
February 19, 2024 - After the Bloom has Left the Rose
February 12, 2024 - Praying the Psalms
February 5, 2024 - The Dark Night as Impasse
January 29, 2024 - Breaking Faith with Each Other
January 22, 2024 - The Spirituality of Eugene de Mazenod
January 15, 2024 - The Law of Gravity and The Holy Spirit
January 8, 2024 - Piety and Humor
December 31, 2023 - My Top Ten Books for 2023
December 25, 2023 - Merry Christmas or Season’s Greetings?
December 18, 2023 - Joseph and the Christmas Story
December 11, 2023 - Lighting an Advent Candle
December 4, 2023 - Our Over-Complex, Tortured Selves
November 27, 2023 - Richard “Rick” Gaillardetz – RIP
November 20, 2023 - The Pew and the Academy
November 13, 2023 - Helplessness as Fruitful
November 6, 2023 - Love Beyond Death
October 30, 2023 - The Power of Words
October 23, 2023 - Bad Thoughts
October 16, 2023 - A Subtler Kind of Poverty
October 9, 2023 - Our Lifestyle and Our Over-Strained Planet
October 3, 2023 - Our Deepest Loneliness
September 25, 2023 - Surrendering to Love
September 18, 2023 - A Single Line Says it All!
September 11, 2023 - Hypocrisy’s Two Faces
September 4, 2023 - Divine Permission for Human Fatigue
August 28, 2023 - Giving Up on Fear
August 21, 2023 - Unfinished Relationships
August 14, 2023 - What Will Heaven Be Like?
August 7, 2023 - The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency
July 31, 2023 - It Comes and it Goes
July 24, 2023 - Private Integrity
July 17, 2023 - Praying for Both – The Weak and the Strong
July 10, 2023 - Relating to Both Jesus and Christ
July 3, 2023 - No Lasting City
June 26, 2023 - The Therapy of a Public Life
June 19, 2023 - Post-Sophistication
June 12, 2023 - The Taste of Banter and Wine
June 5, 2023 - Blessing Others as the Endgame of Sexuality
May 29, 2023 - Wonder Has Left the Building
May 22, 2023 - Praying as a Christian
May 15, 2023 - On Not Being Defensive
May 8, 2023 - Quiet Prophecy
May 1, 2023 - Of Innocence, Purity and Chastity
April 24, 2023 - Generous Orthodoxy
April 17, 2023 - What Really is Despair?
April 10, 2023 - Struggling to Give Birth to Hope
April 3, 2023 - Easter Light
March 27, 2023 - Choosing our own Storm
March 20, 2023 - Binding and Loosing
March 13, 2023 - Losing a Loved One to Suicide
March 6, 2023 - Waiting for the Angel to Come
February 27, 2023 - A Requiem for an Older Brother
February 20, 2023 - Lost Innocence
February 13, 2023 - A Lesson from the Misfit
February 6, 2023 - Our Over-Burdened Planet
January 30, 2023 - To Fall in Love
January 23, 2023 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow
January 16, 2023 - How Serious is Laughter?
January 9, 2023 - The One and the Many – Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations
January 2, 2023 - The Anthropological Function of Gossip
December 26, 2022 - My Top 10 Books for 2022
December 19, 2022 - Defying Darkness with Christmas Lights
December 12, 2022 - Staring into the Light
December 5, 2022 - Jesus’ Dysfunctional Ancestry 
November 28, 2022 - God’s Anger – And our Feelings of Guilt and Shame
November 21, 2022 - You Have Less Love in You Now Than When You Were Young
November 14, 2022 - In Exile – Marking an Anniversary
November 7, 2022 - Can Anything Good Come from Okarche Oklahoma?
October 31, 2022 - Workaholism and Greed
October 24, 2022 - Risking God’s Mercy
October 17, 2022 - Celebrating Fifty Years of Ordination
October 10, 2022 - How to Pray When We Don’t Feel Like It
October 3, 2022 - Writing Your Own Obituary
September 26, 2022 - Dying Alone in the Desert
September 19, 2022 - On Being Jealous of God’s Generosity
September 12, 2022 - Our Real Demons
September 5, 2022 - A Biblical Formula for Forgiveness
August 29, 2022 - The Magnificat
August 22, 2022 - Seeing What Lies Near Our Doorsteps
August 15, 2022 - One God, One Guidance System, and One Road for Us All
August 8, 2022 - Making a Recessive Journey
August 1, 2022 - Disarmed and Dangerous
July 25, 2022 - Why is There Something Instead of Nothing?
July 18, 2022 - The Temptations of the Good Person
July 11, 2022 - Coping with our own Souls
July 4, 2022 - Our Fellow Believers – Friends not Foes
June 27, 2022 - Cheap Grace
June 20, 2022 - Suicide and Our Misunderstandings
June 13, 2022 - Women, Inequality, and Feminism
June 6, 2022 - God’s Sense of Humor
May 30, 2022 - What’s in a Farewell?
May 23, 2022 - Naming the Present Moment – Some Metaphors to Digest
May 16, 2022 - Love, Not Excuses, Moves Things Forward
May 9, 2022 - Spirituality – A Place Where All Believers Can Come Together
May 2, 2022 - Managing an Ascension
April 25, 2022 - Fear of Missing Out
April 18, 2022 - Then God Created Light Again
April 11, 2022 - Straining To Hear the Voice of Good Friday
April 4, 2022 - The Secret Hidden from the Amoral
March 28, 2022 - The Therapy of a Public Life
March 21, 2022 - When Did We Lose Basic Respect for Each Other?
March 14, 2022 - Lenten Ashes
March 7, 2022 - Our Best Farewell Gift
February 28, 2022 - Trying Not to Make God Look Bad
February 21, 2022 - The Perfect Ritual
February 14, 2022 - The Death of Chastity in our Culture
February 7, 2022 - When Our World is Falling Apart
January 31, 2022 - Pornography and Chastity
January 24, 2022 - Making Love with the Divine
January 17, 2022 - Theology and Spirituality – Writing about It or Writing It
January 10, 2022 - What We Do in Private
January 3, 2022 - At the Origins of our Universe – Jesus and the Big Bang
December 27, 2021 - My Top 10 Books for 2021
December 20, 2021 - No Room in the Inn
December 13, 2021 - Listening to Our Souls
December 6, 2021 - Human(Kind) – Ashlee Eiland
November 29, 2021 - Leaving Church
November 22, 2021 - Dealing with Emotional Paralysis
November 15, 2021 - The Notion of a Vocation
November 8, 2021 - Giving Ourselves a Better Story
November 1, 2021 - Binding and Loosing
October 25, 2021 - Beware of Your Inner Circles
October 18, 2021 - Permission to be Sad
October 11, 2021 - Immigration – Then and Now
October 4, 2021 - Do We Have Guardian Angels?
September 27, 2021 - What Ultimately Lies at the Center of Our Attention?
September 20, 2021 - When We Doubt the Power of Prayer
September 13, 2021 - September 11th – Twenty Years Later
September 6, 2021 - Under a Bridge in Austin
August 30, 2021 - Different Ways of Being Spiritual but Not Religious
August 23, 2021 - The Fading of Forgiveness
August 16, 2021 - The Richness of the Eucharist
August 9, 2021 - Complexity and Paradox
August 2, 2021 - Who is Close to God’s Heart?
July 26, 2021 - Can We Prove that God Exists?
July 18, 2021 - Bruised and Wounded – Understanding Suicide
July 12, 2021 - Why Stay in the Church?
July 5, 2021 - What’s Inside the Face of God?
June 28, 2021 - Joy – A Sign of God
June 21, 2021 - What is Love Asking of Me Now?
June 14, 2021 - A Eucharistic Prayer
June 7, 2021 - More Than a House or a Place
May 31, 2021 - Losing the Song in the Singer
May 24, 2021 - The Binding Power of Hatred
May 17, 2021 - Rich Kids Growing Up Without Money – or Understanding
May 10, 2021 - A Saint for Our Time
May 3, 2021 - The Eyes of Love
April 26, 2021 - Our Heart is Stronger than our Wounds
April 19, 2021 - The Origin of Our Conflicts and Differences
April 12, 2021 - Taking Tension out of the Community
April 5, 2021 - The Power of Beauty
March 28, 2021 - The Cosmic Dimension of the Resurrection
March 22, 2021 - It is Healthy to Love your Life
March 15, 2021 - An Unlikely Affinity
March 8, 2021 - Opening Our Secrets to the Light
March 1, 2021 - An Invitation to Something Higher
February 22, 2021 - The Imperialism of the Human Soul
February 15, 2021 - An Honest Prayer
February 8, 2021 - The Triumph of Good Over Evil
February 1, 2021 - Our Unconscious Search for God
January 25, 2021 - God Cannot Tell a Lie
January 18, 2021 - Grieving Death
January 11, 2021 - What is Love Asking of Us Now?
January 4, 2021 - What is Your Practice?
December 28, 2020 - My Top Ten Books for 2020
December 21, 2020 - Christmas as Shattering the Containers of Our Expectations
December 14, 2020 - The Illusion of Invulnerability
December 7, 2020 - From Saint Tarcisius to People Magazine: Our Evolution in Admiration and Imitation
November 30, 2020 - Our Wounds, Our Gifts, and Our Power to Heal Others
November 23, 2020 - An Invitation to Maturity – Weeping Over Jerusalem
November 16, 2020 - Can The Ground Cry Out?
November 9, 2020 - The Law of Gravity and the Holy Spirit
November 2, 2020 - Structure, Ritual, and Habit as Anchoring Love, Prayer and Service
October 26, 2020 - What Kind of House Can You Build for Me?
October 19, 2020 - The Prince of Lies
October 12, 2020 - Pope Francis’ New Encyclical
October 5, 2020 - Spirituality and the Second Half of Life
September 28, 2020 - The Hidden Face of Evil
September 21, 2020 - God is Happy
September 14, 2020 - Moving Beyond Mistakes and Weaknesses
September 7, 2020 - Mystical Experience and Everyday People
August 31, 2020 - The Last Temptation
August 24, 2020 - The Invitation to Courage
August 17, 2020 - Pornography and the Sacred
August 10, 2020 - Suicide and Melancholy
August 3, 2020 - Letting Go of False Fear
July 27, 2020 - On Not Locking Our Doors
July 20, 2020 - Sacred Permission to Feel Human
July 13, 2020 - Some Secrets Worth Knowing
July 6, 2020 - Deeper Things Under the Surface
June 29, 2020 - Praying When We Don’t Know How
June 22, 2020 - Our Deep Failure in Charity
June 15, 2020 - Dignity
June 8, 2020 - A Magnificent Defeat
June 1, 2020 - Some Advice on Prayer from an Old Master
May 25, 2020 - Faithful Friendship
May 18, 2020 - Facing Our Tough Hours
May 11, 2020 - Leaving Peace Behind as Our Farewell Gift
May 4, 2020 - Fever
April 27, 2020 - God and the Principle of Non-Contradiction
April 20, 2020 - Churches as Field Hospitals
April 13, 2020 - Huge Stones and Locked Doors
April 6, 2020 - The Meaning of Jesus’ Death
March 30, 2020 - The Dispelling of an Illusion
March 23, 2020 - Love In The Time of Covid 19
March 16, 2020 - An Alternate Expression of Love and Trust
March 9, 2020 - Judgment Day
March 2, 2020 - Jean Vanier – Revisited
February 24, 2020 - Our Congenital Complexity
February 17, 2020 - Speaking with Authority
February 10, 2020 - On Hallowing Our Diminishments
February 3, 2020 - Magnanimity
January 27, 2020 - On Self-Hatred and Guilt
January 20, 2020 - Inadequacy, Hurt, and Reconciliation
January 13, 2020 - The Little Way
December 30, 2019 - The Best Ten Books That Found Me in 2019
December 16, 2019 - Deep Incarnation – Another Meaning of Christmas
December 9, 2019 - Justice and Charity – Revisited
December 2, 2019 - Anchoring Ourselves within God’s Goodness
November 25, 2019 - What Constitutes Fidelity?
November 18, 2019 - Saints for a New Situation
November 11, 2019 - Living out a Vocation
November 4, 2019 - Faith and Dying
October 28, 2019 - The Frustrating Struggle for Humility
October 21, 2019 - The Grace within Passivity
October 14, 2019 - Grieving as a Spiritual Exercise
October 7, 2019 - The Arrival of Refugees, Old and New
September 30, 2019 - Creating and Holding Space for our Brokenness
September 23, 2019 - Jesus Christ – The Person and the Mystery
September 16, 2019 - Some Counsels on Faith and Religion for our Present Generation
September 9, 2019 - The Scent of Humility
September 2, 2019 - Late Migrations
August 26, 2019 - A Lesson in Aging
August 19, 2019 - Imagining Grace
August 12, 2019 - Intelligence versus Wisdom
August 5, 2019 - Divine Understanding
July 29, 2019 - Our Grandiosity and Our Wounds
July 22, 2019 - What Does it Mean To Be Born Again?
July 15, 2019 - God’s Finger in Our Lives
July 8, 2019 - Needed – Particular Kinds of Saints
July 1, 2019 - An Important New Book
June 24, 2019 - The Loss of Heaven and The Fear of Hell
June 17, 2019 - What Makes for Christian Communion?
June 10, 2019 - Rachel Held Evans, 1981-2019
June 3, 2019 - Faith, Fear and Death
May 26, 2019 - Jean Vanier (1928-2019)
May 20, 2019 - Where is Home?
May 13, 2019 - Language, Symbols, and Self-Understanding
May 6, 2019 - Who Goes to Hell and Who Doesn’t?
April 29, 2019 - Beyond Mysticism
April 22, 2019 - Ascending, Descending, and Just Keeping Steady
April 15, 2019 - And All Manner of Being Shall be Well
April 8, 2019 - Our Own Good Friday
April 1, 2019 - What We Haven’t Got Right About Sex
March 25, 2019 - But Where Are the Others?
March 18, 2019 - Our Struggle for Proper Celebration
March 12, 2019 - Lessons Through Failure
March 4, 2019 - Unfinished Relationships
February 25, 2019 - Struggling Inside our own Skin
February 18, 2019 - An Honorable Defeat
February 11, 2019 - Celibacy – A Personal Apologia
February 4, 2019 - Ecumenism – The Path Forward
January 28, 2019 - Spirituality and Spiritualities
January 21, 2019 - Snake-bitten …
January 14, 2019 - Wendy Beckett – RIP
January 7, 2019 - Struggling for Sustenance
December 31, 2018 - My Top Ten Books in Spirituality for 2018
December 17, 2018 - The Double Message of Christmas
December 10, 2018 - Outside the City
December 3, 2018 - A Different Kind of Bucket-List
November 26, 2018 - A Lesson in a Parking Lot
November 19, 2018 - Our Lack of Welcome
November 12, 2018 - Dual Citizenship
November 5, 2018 - When is our Life Fulfilled?
October 29, 2018 - A Right Way Of Dying
October 23, 2018 - Faith and Levity
October 15, 2018 - Beyond Criticism and Anger – The Invitation to a Deeper Empathy
October 8, 2018 - Suicide and the Soul
October 1, 2018 - The Search for an Indubitable Truth
September 24, 2018 - What’s in a Name?
September 17, 2018 - Bridging the Unbridgeable Gap
September 10, 2018 - Chastity and Love
September 3, 2018 - An Ode to the Church
August 27, 2018 - How to Respond
August 20, 2018 - Beautiful Stoics
August 13, 2018 - The Power of a Compliment
August 6, 2018 - Why I Believe in God
July 30, 2018 - Standing on New Borders
July 23, 2018 - To the Friends I’ve Known
July 16, 2018 - A Slur that Cuts Deep
July 9, 2018 - Consecrated Celibacy – An Apologia
July 2, 2018 - Real Miracles
June 25, 2018 - The Mary of Scripture and the Mary of Devotions
June 18, 2018 - Mourning
June 11, 2018 - Stirring the Smoldering Ashes of Our Faith
June 4, 2018 - On Being the Beloved Disciple
May 28, 2018 - Mercy, Truth, and Pastoral Practice
May 21, 2018 - On Friendship
May 14, 2018 - On Suicide and Despair
May 7, 2018 - Protest, Sanity, and a Christian Response
April 30, 2018 - Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience in a Secular Age
April 23, 2018 - The Shortcomings of a Digital Immigrant
April 16, 2018 - Moral Outrage
April 9, 2018 - Reasons to Believe in God
April 2, 2018 - When Time Stands Still
March 26, 2018 - Putting God on Trial
March 19, 2018 - Our Need to Pray
March 12, 2018 - The Ups and Downs of Faith
March 5, 2018 - The Passing of a Good Shepherd
February 26, 2018 - Our Ache For Earthly Immortality
February 19, 2018 - Celibacy Revisited
February 12, 2018 - Our Most Common Sin
February 5, 2018 - Faith and Superstition
January 29, 2018 - How does God Act in Our World?
January 22, 2018 - Overcoming the Divisions that Divide Us
January 15, 2018 - Can You Lose Your Vocation?
January 8, 2018 - How Can It All Have a Happy Ending?
January 1, 2018 - My Top Ten Books for 2017
December 22, 2017 - The Christ-Child of the Year
December 18, 2017 - Fear of God as Wisdom
December 11, 2017 - The Real Tragedy of Sin
December 4, 2017 - Reticence and Secrecy as Virtue
November 27, 2017 - Playing Loose With the Truth
November 20, 2017 - God’s Closeness
November 13, 2017 - A Threat to Our Decency
November 6, 2017 - Paralysis, Exasperation, and Helplessness as Prayer
October 30, 2017 - A Plea for the Soul
October 23, 2017 - Kathleen Dowling Singh, RIP
October 16, 2017 - Close the Distance not the Gate
October 9, 2017 - Language as Opening or Closing Our Minds
October 2, 2017 - Healthy and Unhealthy Fear of God
September 25, 2017 - A Prayer for Stillness
September 18, 2017 - Our Struggle with Riches
September 11, 2017 - God’s Command to Kill the Canaanites
September 4, 2017 - Achievement versus Fruitfulness
August 28, 2017 - Stuck in Traffic
August 21, 2017 - The Power of Ritual
August 14, 2017 - God Needs Better Press
August 7, 2017 - Our Utmost in Dealing with Our Faith
July 31, 2017 - Suicide – Redeeming the Memory of a Loved One
July 24, 2017 - Angels and the City
July 17, 2017 - The Gospel Challenge to Enjoy Our Lives
July 10, 2017 - Understanding Grace more Deeply
July 2, 2017 - Inchoate Desire
June 26, 2017 - To Whom Can We Go?
June 19, 2017 - Being Good-Hearted is Not Enough
June 12, 2017 - Christianity and Noon-Day Fatigue
June 5, 2017 - The Seamless Garment
May 29, 2017 - Going On, Ahead
May 22, 2017 - When Does Faith Disappear?
May 15, 2017 - Coming Full Circle – From Storybooks to Spirituality
May 8, 2017 - Despair as Weakness Rather than Sin
May 1, 2017 - An Extraordinary Book
April 24, 2017 - Becoming a Holy Beggar
April 17, 2017 - Five Hundred Years of Misunderstanding
April 10, 2017 - The Empty Tomb
April 2, 2017 - Good Friday
March 26, 2017 - Doing Violence in God’s Name
March 19, 2017 - Our Shadow and Our Self-Understanding
March 13, 2017 - Nothing is Ever Really Ours
March 6, 2017 - The Flavor of God’s Energy
February 27, 2017 - Of Virtue and Sin
February 20, 2017 - Of Winners and Losers
February 13, 2017 - Welcoming the Stranger
February 6, 2017 - Embittered Moralizing
January 30, 2017 - God’s Power as Powerlessness
January 23, 2017 - Acedia and Sabbath
January 16, 2017 - Taking Our Wounds to the Eucharist
January 9, 2017 - Orthodoxy, Sin, and Heresy
January 2, 2017 - My Favorite Books of 2016
December 19, 2016 - Incarnation – God is with Us
December 12, 2016 - Our Churches as Sanctuaries
December 5, 2016 - The Martyrdom of Inadequate Self-Expression
November 28, 2016 - The End of the World
November 21, 2016 - The Dangers in Being a Warrior Prophet
November 14, 2016 - Why Dark Nights of the Soul?
November 7, 2016 - The Real Presence
October 31, 2016 - Our Resistance to Love
October 24, 2016 - Boredom – A Fault within Ourselves
October 17, 2016 - On not Cultivating Restlessness
October 10, 2016 - Contemplative Prayer
October 3, 2016 - The Struggle to not make God our Own Tribal Deity
September 26, 2016 - Software, Moral Formatting, and Living in Sin
September 19, 2016 - Indulgences Revisited
September 12, 2016 - From Paranoia to Metanoia
September 5, 2016 - Feeding off Life’s Sacred Fire
August 29, 2016 - Utopia, With Limits
August 22, 2016 - God’s Nature – Exuberance or the Cross?
August 15, 2016 - A Happy Death
August 8, 2016 - Fear
August 1, 2016 - Our Fear of Hell
July 25, 2016 - Suicide and Mental Health
July 18, 2016 - Angels with Sickles and God’s Fury
July 11, 2016 - Our Deepest Insecurity
July 4, 2016 - Struggling with Grandiosity
June 27, 2016 - Us First!
June 20, 2016 - Of Guns and Pacifism
June 13, 2016 - The Struggle to Love Our Neighbor
June 6, 2016 - Sensitivity and Suffering
May 30, 2016 - Ordinary Goodness and Our Spiritual Journey
May 23, 2016 - Faith and Fear
May 16, 2016 - Youth Today – Who are They Really?
May 9, 2016 - The Ten Commandments of Mercy
May 2, 2016 - Daniel Berrigan – RIP
April 25, 2016 - Marking an Anniversary
April 18, 2016 - Loyalty and Patriotism Revisited
April 11, 2016 - Love – A Projection and a Reality
April 4, 2016 - The Power of Prayer and Ritual inside our Helplessness
March 28, 2016 - The Triumph of Goodness
March 21, 2016 - The Understanding and Compassion of Good Friday
March 14, 2016 - The Power of Fear
March 7, 2016 - How the Soul Matures
February 29, 2016 - The Cries of Finitude
February 21, 2016 - Mourning Our Barrenness
February 15, 2016 - God’s Inexhaustibility
February 8, 2016 - On Reading Difficult Passages in Scripture
February 1, 2016 - A Shirt of Flame
January 25, 2016 - The Kiss of God on the Soul
January 18, 2016 - On Bowing and Raising Our Heads
January 11, 2016 - Forever Being Ahead Of Our Souls
January 4, 2016 - Only in Silence
December 28, 2015 - My Top Books for 2015
December 21, 2015 - The Meaning of Christmas – Connecting the Dots between the Crib and the Cross
December 14, 2015 - Sex and Our Culture
December 7, 2015 - Sensitive to Community, Beyond Ourselves
November 30, 2015 - The Hiddenness of God and the Darkness of Faith
November 23, 2015 - Our Muslim Brothers and Sisters
November 16, 2015 - Lacking the Self-Confidence for Greatness
November 9, 2015 - Faith, Doubt, Dark Nights, and Maturity
November 2, 2015 - The Communion of Saints
October 26, 2015 - Religion, Secular Thought, and Health and Happiness
October 19, 2015 - Displacing Ego and Narcissism
October 12, 2015 - The Stigma of Suicide
October 5, 2015 - Innocence, Complexity, and Sanctity
September 28, 2015 - Caring for Our Soul
September 21, 2015 - Things Beyond Our Imagination
September 14, 2015 - Our Overstimulated Grandiosity – and Our Impoverished Symbols
September 7, 2015 - God’s Ineffability – What’s Revealed in Jesus’ Eyes?
August 31, 2015 - Dorothy Day – A Saint for Our Time
August 24, 2015 - Human Nature – Is it Somehow all Wrong?
August 17, 2015 - Political Correctness – Swallowing Hard
August 10, 2015 - A Eucharistic Prayer over an Awakening World
August 3, 2015 - An Obituary for a Suicide
July 27, 2015 - Children of both Heaven and Earth
July 20, 2015 - The Healing Place of Silence
July 13, 2015 - Healing – A Theory
July 6, 2015 - The Value and Power of Ritual
June 29, 2015 - The God of Our Desires
June 22, 2015 - The Hero-Complex
June 15, 2015 - The Best One can do in the Circumstances
June 8, 2015 - A Primal Understanding of the Eucharist
June 1, 2015 - The Deepest Secret Inside Wisdom
May 25, 2015 - Inordinate Attachments – Moral Flaw or Struggle with Divine Energy?
May 18, 2015 - Contemporary Writers in Spirituality
May 11, 2015 - Artificial Light
May 4, 2015 - Evolution’s Ultimate Wisdom
April 27, 2015 - Praying for Those Not of This Fold – An Open Letter to Roman Catholic Bishops
April 20, 2015 - Who am I to Judge?
April 13, 2015 - Principles for Interfaith Dialogue and Interfaith Attitudes
April 6, 2015 - Where to Find Resurrection
March 30, 2015 - The Passion of Jesus
March 23, 2015 - Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death
March 16, 2015 - Seeing in a Deeper Way
March 9, 2015 - Going to Heaven – By Good Luck or by God’s Grace?
March 2, 2015 - Fear Masking Itself as Piety
February 23, 2015 - God’s Pleasure in Our Action
February 16, 2015 - Christ and Nature
February 9, 2015 - Our Daydreams
February 2, 2015 - Our Eyes as Windows to Our Souls
January 26, 2015 - The Positive Side of Melancholy
January 19, 2015 - Looking for the One God Inside Our Denominational and Faith Divisions
January 12, 2015 - The Importance of the Interior and Private
January 5, 2015 - Understanding and Appreciating Our Differences
December 29, 2014 - My Top Ten Books for 2014
December 22, 2014 - Being Ready for Christmas
December 15, 2014 - The Visitation – Revisited
December 8, 2014 - Honoring Talent and Grace – Jean Beliveau RIP
December 1, 2014 - Self-Sacrifice and the Eucharist
November 24, 2014 - Two Churches, Two Sacred Places, Two Struggles
November 17, 2014 - Less People Are Going to Church – Whom to Blame?
November 10, 2014 - Spiritual Warfare
November 3, 2014 - Carrying Our Cross
October 27, 2014 - Three Kinds of Spiritualities
October 20, 2014 - The Goddess of Chastity
October 13, 2014 - The Unhappy Cost of Resentment
October 6, 2014 - Sacred Permission to be Human and the Tools to Handle Frustration
September 29, 2014 - Five People Who Helped Give Me Some Self-Understanding
September 22, 2014 - Fatherless at the Depth of Our Being
September 15, 2014 - On How We React to Criticism and Opposition
September 8, 2014 - Our Timidity in the Face of God’s Abundance
September 1, 2014 - May your Kingdom Come, But not Yet
August 25, 2014 - Fearing Our Own Maturity
August 18, 2014 - Ten Secrets to Happiness
August 11, 2014 - Walking on Water and Sinking Like a Stone
August 4, 2014 - The Law of Karma
July 28, 2014 - Searching for the Right Fuel
July 21, 2014 - Suicide – Reclaiming the Memory of Our Loved One
July 14, 2014 - A Visit from the Goddess of Night
July 7, 2014 - Disciples with many Faces
June 30, 2014 - Robert Moore on Human Energy
June 23, 2014 - On Being Perpetually Distracted
June 16, 2014 - On Not Being Stingy With God’s Mercy
June 9, 2014 - The Regrets We Can Live With
June 2, 2014 - Wearied in our Patience
May 26, 2014 - Our Gaze upon the City
May 19, 2014 - Dag Hammarskjold on Sexuality and Desire
May 12, 2014 - Mother’s Day
May 5, 2014 - A Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire, and Soul
April 27, 2014 - Accepting Truth, Whatever its Cloak
April 21, 2014 - God’s Quiet Presence in Our Lives
April 13, 2014 - The Transcript of Our Trial
April 7, 2014 - The Garden of Gethsemane
March 31, 2014 - Our Need to Share Our Riches with the Poor
March 24, 2014 - Groaning Beyond Words – Our Deeper Way of Praying
March 17, 2014 - What Dark Nights Do For Us
March 10, 2014 - Facing Our Maker
March 2, 2014 - The Human Struggle with Sexual Energy
February 23, 2014 - The Real Challenge in Creativity – To Enter the Song
February 16, 2014 - Religious Coinage
February 9, 2014 - Our Pagan Resistance To The Other World
February 2, 2014 - Our Struggle For Empathy And Generativity
January 26, 2014 - Holiness, Wholeness, and Depression
January 19, 2014 - The Imperative for Wholeness inside Christ
January 12, 2014 - The Non-Violence of God
January 5, 2014 - On the Dangers of Defining Ourselves
December 22, 2013 - My Ten Favorite Books of 2013
December 15, 2013 - Christmas – Its Checkered Origins and its Checkered Sequence
December 8, 2013 - Staying Awake
December 1, 2013 - Every Tear Brings the Messiah Closer
November 24, 2013 - Misguided Loyalties
November 13, 2013 - Searching for a Word Filled with Reality
November 10, 2013 - Handling Resentment in Our Lives
November 3, 2013 - Dying into Safe Hands
October 27, 2013 - The Single Life
October 20, 2013 - The Academy and the Pew – A Strained Relationship between Theology and Catechesis
October 13, 2013 - Saint or Sinner?
October 6, 2013 - In His Own Words
September 29, 2013 - A Lesson from the Road
September 22, 2013 - On Not Faking Humility
September 15, 2013 - Disappearing Roots
September 8, 2013 - The Slow, Imperceptible March of Goodness
September 1, 2013 - The Value of Atheists
August 25, 2013 - Have I Been Saved?
August 18, 2013 - Rationalizing Our Anger and Moral Indignations
August 11, 2013 - Embittered Moralizing – An Occupational Hazard for Good, Faithful Persons
August 4, 2013 - Our Need to Give to the Poor
July 28, 2013 - Struggling to Understand Suicide
July 21, 2013 - On Whining and Weeping
July 14, 2013 - Why Faith Feels Like Doubt and Darkness
July 7, 2013 - An Addiction to Comfort
June 30, 2013 - Raissa and Jacques Maritain and the New Evangelization
June 23, 2013 - Contemplative Sound Bytes
June 16, 2013 - Struggling for Our Father’s Blessing
June 9, 2013 - Andrew Greeley – RIP
June 2, 2013 - Always in a Hurry
May 26, 2013 - Ordinary Time
May 19, 2013 - Our Fundamental Option
May 12, 2013 - The Wages of Celibacy
May 5, 2013 - Boldness with God
April 28, 2013 - Guidelines for the Long Haul – Revisited
April 21, 2013 - A Call for Less Self-Protection
April 14, 2013 - Stone Jars and Softer Containers
April 7, 2013 - Struggling with Secularity
March 31, 2013 - Lucky Sevens
March 24, 2013 - The Resurrection as Revealing God as Redeemer, not as Rescuer
March 17, 2013 - Praying In a Crisis
March 10, 2013 - The Major Imperatives within Mature Discipleship
March 3, 2013 - Honoring An Abundant and Prodigal God
February 24, 2013 - Overcoming Anxiety
February 17, 2013 - Anxiety
February 10, 2013 - What Does It Mean To Focus Our Attention On God?
February 3, 2013 - Prayer as Sanity and Balance
January 27, 2013 - Ecumenism – Our Neglected Mandate
January 20, 2013 - The Intelligence Inside of the Aging Process
January 13, 2013 - The Ineffability of God
January 6, 2013 - Prayer As Keeping Us Outside The Great March
December 30, 2012 - My Top Books for 2012
December 23, 2012 - King Herod and the Wise Men – A Christmas Challenge
December 16, 2012 - In Safer Hands than Ours
December 9, 2012 - Marking an Anniversary
December 2, 2012 - Honoring Life’s Complexity
November 25, 2012 - Working Too Hard – It Begins as Virtue and Ends as Escape
November 18, 2012 - Some Light-hearted Thoughts on a Very Heavy Subject
November 11, 2012 - Sexuality – Its Power and Purpose
November 4, 2012 - Purgatory as Seeing Fully for the First Time
October 28, 2012 - Living With Less Fear
October 21, 2012 - Never Grow Weary
October 14, 2012 - Pride in Subtle Forms
October 7, 2012 - Tribalism and Fear: Unworthy of Christianity
September 30, 2012 - Willpower Alone is Not Enough
September 23, 2012 - Laughter as Faith
September 16, 2012 - The Right Answer Alone Is Not Enough
September 9, 2012 - The Three Levels of Christian Discipleship
September 2, 2012 - Of Pharisees, Pots, Bronze Kettles, Liturgical Rubrics, Cups, And Cats
August 26, 2012 - Categorical Imperatives
August 19, 2012 - Our Attitude Towards Wealth
August 12, 2012 - The Ultimate Answer To Violence
August 5, 2012 - In Paradox There Is Virtue
July 29, 2012 - A Lesson in Contingency
July 22, 2012 - Patience With God
July 15, 2012 - Powerful Voices Within
July 8, 2012 - Our Misunderstandings About Suicide
July 1, 2012 - Longing For Solitude
June 24, 2012 - The Mystically-Driven Life
June 17, 2012 - Father’s Day
June 10, 2012 - Moving Beyond Bad Habits
June 3, 2012 - "There’s Always Something!"
May 27, 2012 - A Crack in our Pitcher
May 20, 2012 - Sun, Storms, Wilderness, Deserts, and Spirituality
May 13, 2012 - The New Evangelization
May 6, 2012 - The Power of Powerlessness
April 29, 2012 - An Earthy View of the Communion of Saints
April 22, 2012 - To Live In The Light
April 15, 2012 - The Ten Major Faith Struggles Of Our Age
April 8, 2012 - Seeing Spring and Easter
April 1, 2012 - A Stone’s Throw Away From Everybody
March 25, 2012 - Holy And Unholy Fear
March 18, 2012 - Searching for God Among Many Voices
March 11, 2012 - Sublimation And The Sublime
March 4, 2012 - Consecrated by Circumstance and Need
February 26, 2012 - Porous and Buffered Personalities
February 20, 2012 - Thou Shalt Not Kill!
February 19, 2012 - A Christian Attitude Regarding the Salvation of Non-Christians
February 12, 2012 - In Gratitude
February 5, 2012 - On Mourning and Dancing
January 29, 2012 - Other Sheep Not Of Our Flock
January 22, 2012 - Mosquito Bites
January 15, 2012 - Chastity As Purity Of Heart And Intention
January 8, 2012 - A Haunting Equation
January 1, 2012 - Books That Have Found Me In 2011
December 18, 2011 - Praying So As To See God’s Glory Inside Of Humanity
December 11, 2011 - Prayer as Seeking God’s Guidance
December 4, 2011 - Praying So As Not To Lose Heart
November 28, 2011 - Prayer as Seeking Depth
November 20, 2011 - Empathy for the World
November 13, 2011 - Love Beyond Naiveté and Romance
November 6, 2011 - Loneliness – Its Ultimate Agony
October 23, 2011 - The Catholic Press Loses a Friend
October 16, 2011 - God and Sex
October 3, 2011 - The Preciousness and Joy of a Whole Number
September 25, 2011 - Unconscious Images that Deeply Influence Us
September 18, 2011 - A Sufficient Creed
September 11, 2011 - Some Personal Mini-Creeds
September 4, 2011 - Christ as Cosmic
August 27, 2011 - Feeding Off Life’s Sacred Fire
August 21, 2011 - A Canopy Under Which to Pray
August 14, 2011 - On Not Bracketing the Essentials during our Moral Battles
August 7, 2011 - A Prophetic Mantra about the Poor
July 24, 2011 - Struggling to Understand Suicide
July 17, 2011 - A New Challenge
July 10, 2011 - Things Hidden from the Learned and the Clever
July 3, 2011 - The Internal Battle for our Souls
June 26, 2011 - The Size of our Hearts
June 19, 2011 - Struggling with our Complexity
June 12, 2011 - Meaning and Happiness
June 5, 2011 - Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat
May 29, 2011 - Simplifying our Spiritual Vocabulary
May 22, 2011 - God and Violence
May 15, 2011 - The Other Side of Orthodoxy
May 8, 2011 - Mothers’ Day
May 1, 2011 - The Gift that was Henri Nouwen
April 24, 2011 - The Resurrection as Vindicating Human Fidelity and God’s Silence
April 16, 2011 - The Passion of Jesus According to John
April 10, 2011 - The Unquiet Frontiers of our Lives
April 3, 2011 - The Roots of Forgiveness
March 27, 2011 - Loving our Enemies
March 20, 2011 - A Contemporary Apologetics
March 13, 2011 - Saved by One Man’s Sacrifice
March 11, 2011 - Sublimation And The Sublime
March 6, 2011 - On Blessed and Cursed Consciousness
February 27, 2011 - Following Jesus – According to the Letter or the Spirit?
February 20, 2011 - Building an Ark
February 13, 2011 - Straining for Sabbath amidst the Demands of Phones and Computers
February 6, 2011 - Tormenting the Cat
January 30, 2011 - Some Hymns for Justice
January 23, 2011 - Rolling the Dice on the Gospel
January 15, 2011 - Chastity As Purity Of Heart And Intention
January 2, 2011 - Books That Have Crossed my Path in 2010
December 19, 2010 - The Rich Meaning of Christmas
December 12, 2010 - No Room in the Inn
December 5, 2010 - Longing, Desire, and the Face of God
November 29, 2010 - Virgin Birth
November 21, 2010 - Dealing with Loss, Grief, and Obsessions
November 14, 2010 - Atheism and Belief
November 7, 2010 - Seeking a Confessor
October 31, 2010 - Subtle Forms of Idolatry
October 24, 2010 - On Not Running with the Crowd
October 10, 2010 - Maturity in Relationships and Prayer
October 3, 2010 - Being Stretched by Great Writers
September 26, 2010 - Struggling to be inside the Present Moment
September 19, 2010 - Does God Have Favorites?
September 12, 2010 - How Large is your Heaven?
September 5, 2010 - The Lesson within Loneliness
August 29, 2010 - Piety and Propriety
August 22, 2010 - Spirituality and the Seasons of our Lives
August 15, 2010 - Editing Your Own Life
July 25, 2010 - Love in a Time of Opposition
July 18, 2010 - The Triumph of Appearance
July 4, 2010 - Fragments from some Prophetic Loaves and Fishes
June 27, 2010 - Getting it down to the Essentials
June 20, 2010 - Struggling with my Father’s Blessing
June 13, 2010 - Discerning the Truth
June 6, 2010 - Touching our Loved Ones inside the Body of Christ
May 30, 2010 - The Richness of the Mystery of God
May 9, 2010 - A Meta-Narrative of Consolation
May 2, 2010 - Living with our own Anger
April 25, 2010 - Forgiving our Differences
April 18, 2010 - Science and Religion
April 11, 2010 - Living with Frustration and Tension
March 28, 2010 - The Humiliation of Crucifixion
March 21, 2010 - Tortured Complexity
March 7, 2010 - On Being One with the Saints in Praising God
February 28, 2010 - Taking Pain to the Heart
February 21, 2010 - Turning Inner Chaos into a Peaceful Garden
February 14, 2010 - The Challenge of Accepting Pleasure without Guilt
February 7, 2010 - On Fasting and Praying in Secret
January 24, 2010 - Haiti and the Theodicy Question
January 10, 2010 - Lessons from the Monastic Cell
December 27, 2009 - Good Books That Found Me This Year
December 20, 2009 - Reasons to Celebrate Christmas
December 13, 2009 - Chastity and Christmas
December 6, 2009 - Joseph and Christmas
November 29, 2009 - Prayer with an Infallible Guarantee
November 22, 2009 - A Nun’s Story
November 15, 2009 - Respect for Each Other in a Polarized Community
November 1, 2009 - On Litmus Tests for Christian Discipleship
October 25, 2009 - The Joy of the Groove
October 18, 2009 - In Pursuit of Innocence
October 11, 2009 - The Perils of Safety
October 4, 2009 - Private Integrity
September 27, 2009 - The Eucharist as a Celebration of Everyday Life
September 20, 2009 - God Judges No One
August 30, 2009 - Religious Language as Icon
August 23, 2009 - Love – Illusion and Reality
August 16, 2009 - Too-bruised to be Touched – One of the Causes of Suicide
August 2, 2009 - The Eucharist as a call to Justice
July 26, 2009 - What is the Essence of True Religion?
July 12, 2009 - A Particularly Joyous Wedding
July 5, 2009 - Non-Discriminating Embrace that still Speaks its Truth
June 28, 2009 - When What is Precious is Taken From You
June 14, 2009 - Losing a Prophet
June 7, 2009 - Priestly and Affective Prayer
May 24, 2009 - Mystical Images for Our Religious Quest
May 17, 2009 - The Anatomy of Sacrifice
May 10, 2009 - Creativity as One Answer to Violence
May 3, 2009 - There is a Season for Everything
April 26, 2009 - Facing the Dragon – Confronting Grandiosity in our Lives
April 19, 2009 - The Major Points of Convergence within the Great Spiritual Traditions
April 12, 2009 - Easter as Opening the Doors of Hell
March 29, 2009 - The Church’s Economic-Social Teachings
March 15, 2009 - Congenital Jealousy and a Higher Invitation
March 8, 2009 - Wishful Drinking and Moral Resiliency
March 1, 2009 - Our Struggle in Faith – Between Knowing It Is True and Believing it!
February 22, 2009 - Entering Lent
February 8, 2009 - Fidelity – Our Greatest Gift to Others
February 1, 2009 - The Healing Embrace of the Eucharist
January 25, 2009 - Maturity – Being Cool or Being Vulnerable?
January 18, 2009 - Carrying Our Solitude at a High Level
January 11, 2009 - Our Struggle to Celebrate
January 4, 2009 - Doing the Right Thing Because it is the Right Thing
December 28, 2008 - What have you read lately that’s interesting?
December 21, 2008 - Reflections on a New Year’s Eve
December 7, 2008 - The Checkered Origins of Grace
November 30, 2008 - The Struggle with Terrorism
November 16, 2008 - Ad Usam
November 9, 2008 - Old and New Struggles with the Church
November 2, 2008 - Introverts and Extroverts and the Spiritual Journey
October 26, 2008 - Dark Nights of Faith in Our Lives
October 19, 2008 - Evangelizing the Religious Imagination
October 12, 2008 - Beset By Weakness
October 5, 2008 - Reading the Signs of the Times
September 28, 2008 - Struggling with our Own Inadequacy
September 21, 2008 - On the Shores of Babylon
September 14, 2008 - The Problem of Suffering and Evil
September 7, 2008 - The Struggle to Love
August 31, 2008 - Honesty as Sobriety
August 24, 2008 - The Gospel Unfolding in History
August 17, 2008 - The Heart of a Child
August 10, 2008 - On Cultivating or Not Cultivating Loneliness
August 3, 2008 - Prophecy – Challenge and Comfort
July 27, 2008 - The Pearl of Great Price and its Cost
July 20, 2008 - Our Misconceptions about Suicide
July 6, 2008 - Bread and Wine
June 29, 2008 - Our Innate Pathological Complexity
June 22, 2008 - Some Guidelines for Service
June 15, 2008 - Father’s Day
June 8, 2008 - Chastity And the Enchantment of Life
June 1, 2008 - Our Inner Garment
May 25, 2008 - The Many Faces of the Eucharist
May 18, 2008 - A Saint and Compassion Fatigue
May 11, 2008 - The Secret of a Monk’s Cell
May 4, 2008 - The Mystery of Giving and Receiving Spirit
April 27, 2008 - Hatred and the Gospel
April 20, 2008 - Mystic or Unbeliever
April 13, 2008 - The Kenotic and the Triumphant Christ
April 6, 2008 - The Struggle to Will-the-One-Thing
March 30, 2008 - A Spirituality of Martyrdom
March 23, 2008 - Seeing the Resurrection
March 16, 2008 - A Drama of the Heart – Jesus’ Sacrifice
March 2, 2008 - Inarticulate Loves
February 17, 2008 - The Nature of Faith
February 10, 2008 - Jesus and Justice
February 3, 2008 - Images for Lent
January 27, 2008 - The Domestic and the Monastic
January 20, 2008 - “Blood and Water Poured Out”
January 13, 2008 - What If?
December 30, 2007 - Moral Progress and Regression
December 16, 2007 - An Invitation Inside of Christmas
December 9, 2007 - Advent – A Time to Learn How to Wait
December 2, 2007 - Advent Longing
November 25, 2007 - Different Kinds of Glory
November 18, 2007 - Marking an Anniversary
November 11, 2007 - Finding the Strength to Reach Across Differences
November 4, 2007 - Coping With Tragedy
October 28, 2007 - Our Longing for God’s Justice
October 21, 2007 - The Struggle to Bless
October 14, 2007 - Turning Sixty
October 7, 2007 - David and Goliath
September 30, 2007 - Lost is a Place Too
September 23, 2007 - Restlessness on a Friday Night
September 16, 2007 - A Crisis of Faith or of the Imagination?
September 9, 2007 - Mother Teresa’s Faith
September 2, 2007 - A Conspiracy Against Interiority
August 26, 2007 - The Silence of Life
August 19, 2007 - Our Unfinished Symphony
August 12, 2007 - Understanding Suicide
August 5, 2007 - Songs of Innocence and Experience
July 29, 2007 - Wrestling with God
July 22, 2007 - Everyday Life as Sacrament
July 15, 2007 - Accepting Disappointment in Love
July 8, 2007 - Our Three Temptations
July 1, 2007 - Soul-Chained to Things Beyond Us
June 24, 2007 - Sustaining a Prayer Life
June 17, 2007 - Don’t Worship Your Emotions
June 10, 2007 - Celebrating Life inside the Communion of Saints
June 3, 2007 - Liberals and Conservatives – Their Worst and Their Best
May 27, 2007 - A Higher Court of Things
May 20, 2007 - Measuring Ourselves in Love
May 13, 2007 - Painful Goodbyes and the Ascension
May 6, 2007 - Moral Loneliness
April 29, 2007 - God’s Voice as Invitation
April 22, 2007 - Commandments for Daily Life
April 15, 2007 - Einstein on God and Religion
April 8, 2007 - The Resurrection – The Power of Positive Thinking or the Power of God?
April 1, 2007 - The Cross of Jesus
March 25, 2007 - Overcoming Hypersensitivity
March 11, 2007 - Besotted by Celebrity
March 4, 2007 - Praying When We Don’t Feel Like It
February 25, 2007 - The World As a Phone Booth
February 18, 2007 - Moral Intelligence
February 11, 2007 - The Therapy of a Public Life
February 4, 2007 - The Ninety-Nine and the One
January 28, 2007 - The Language of Silence
January 21, 2007 - The Miracle of Existence
January 14, 2007 - Loneliness and God’s Pleasure
January 7, 2007 - Getting and Not Getting the Secret
January 1, 2007 - Ultimate Consolation
December 17, 2006 - Searching for Bethlehem in the Soul
December 3, 2006 - Growth Through Dark Nights
November 26, 2006 - Looking for Rest Amid the Pressures of Life
November 19, 2006 - Steadying Ourselves in the Storm
November 12, 2006 - Dark Memory
November 5, 2006 - The Communion of Saints
October 29, 2006 - Breathing Emotionally
October 15, 2006 - Some Reflections on the Priesthood
October 1, 2006 - Standing on New Borders – Islam
September 24, 2006 - Caring for Our Hearts
September 17, 2006 - What is True Religion?
September 10, 2006 - The Struggle to Trust
September 3, 2006 - Chastity and Healing
August 27, 2006 - Set Apart or One-With?
August 20, 2006 - Our Real Moral Struggle
August 13, 2006 - Home – The Place from which to Understand
August 6, 2006 - Suicide – The Pain of the Ones Left Behind
July 30, 2006 - Our Need for Confession
July 23, 2006 - Not Our Own Children
July 16, 2006 - Stopping the Haemorrhaging by Touching the Hem of the Garment
July 2, 2006 - In Pursuit of Innocence
June 25, 2006 - Coping with the Divine Fire Within
June 18, 2006 - Cultivating Loneliness
June 4, 2006 - The Sacredness of Work
May 28, 2006 - The Mystery of Presence and Absence in Love
May 21, 2006 - Needed: A New Maturity to Match Our Freedom
May 14, 2006 - Dealing with Hurt and Disappointment
May 7, 2006 - Eucharist as God’s Physical Embrace
April 30, 2006 - A Prodigal God
April 23, 2006 - A Mellow Heart in a Bitter Time
April 16, 2006 - A Voice That Never Dies
April 9, 2006 - Jesus’ Last Words
April 2, 2006 - Mary Under the Cross (6 of 6)
March 26, 2006 - Walking Away Out of Sorrow (5 of 6)
March 19, 2006 - Helping Simon of Cyrene Carry Jesus’ Cross (4 of 6)
March 12, 2006 - Betraying Jesus as Peter Did (3 of 6)
March 5, 2006 - Sweating Blood in the Garden (2 of 6)
February 26, 2006 - Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat (1 of 6)
February 19, 2006 - Love’s Baptismal Robe
February 12, 2006 - What’s Worthwhile is Worth Waiting For
February 5, 2006 - Helping Each Other into Heaven
January 29, 2006 - Deeper Thing Under the Surface
January 22, 2006 - Making the Taboo a Holy Place
January 15, 2006 - Standing Under the Cross
January 9, 2006 - Sin and Sadness
January 1, 2006 - An Immune System within the Body of Christ
December 18, 2005 - Keeping Watch with the Shepherds in Bethlehem
December 11, 2005 - Don’t Worship Your Emotions
December 4, 2005 - Being Blessed by Pagan Friends
November 27, 2005 - Cataclysms of the Heart
November 20, 2005 - The Litmus Test for being Christian
November 13, 2005 - Feeling God in Vulnerability
November 6, 2005 - Reflections on Death
October 30, 2005 - Living With Fear and Timidity
October 23, 2005 - Speaking our Truth from a Deeper Place
October 16, 2005 - Our Struggle For Community
October 9, 2005 - Life’s Key Question
October 2, 2005 - Our Inability to Cast Out Demons
September 25, 2005 - Proofs for the Existence of God
September 18, 2005 - On Being Jealous of God’s Generousity
September 11, 2005 - Acknowledging our own Complexity
September 4, 2005 - On Carrying Ecclesial Tension
August 28, 2005 - Moving to a New Job and a new City
August 21, 2005 - When Feeling Down and Out
August 14, 2005 - From Depression To Delight
August 7, 2005 - Keeping Our Loved Ones Connected To The Body Of Christ
July 31, 2005 - A Lesson From Some Young Missionaries
July 24, 2005 - The Mystical Imagination
July 17, 2005 - The Struggle To Understand Suicide
July 10, 2005 - The Truth Sets Us Free
July 3, 2005 - Second Birth
June 26, 2005 - What The Next Hundred Years Will Bring
June 19, 2005 - Purity
June 12, 2005 - Meeting God Without Fear
June 6, 2005 - Searching for a New Maturity
May 29, 2005 - Supporting Family Values
May 22, 2005 - The Jesus Code – Unravelling The Secret
May 15, 2005 - The Danger Of Riches
May 8, 2005 - The Mystery Of Saying Goodbye
May 1, 2005 - Permission To Be Unhappy
April 25, 2005 - Welcoming A New Pope
April 17, 2005 - Multi-Citizenship – Wide Loyalties
April 10, 2005 - The Descent Into Hell
April 3, 2005 - On The Death Of John Paul II
March 27, 2005 - Midwives of Hope
March 20, 2005 - Tasting The Darkness of Good Friday
March 13, 2005 - Gethsemane – The Place To Give Up Resentment
March 6, 2005 - Gethsemane – The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh Is Weak
February 27, 2005 - Gethsemane – As The Place We Are Put To The Test
February 20, 2005 - Gethsemane – The Place Of Moral Loneliness
February 13, 2005 - Gethsemane – A Place To Learn A Lesson
February 6, 2005 - Gethsemane As Liminal Space
January 30, 2005 - Lost Is A Place Too
January 23, 2005 - “Get Behind Me Satan!”
January 16, 2005 - Honoring Jacques Dupuis
January 9, 2005 - Against An Infinite Horizon
January 2, 2005 - The Inclusive Embrace of Catholicism
December 26, 2004 - The Earthiness of Christmas
December 19, 2004 - Faith Means that God is With Us
December 12, 2004 - Jesus’ Dysfunctional Family Tree
December 5, 2004 - Naming our Restlessness
November 28, 2004 - Advent Hope
November 21, 2004 - Finding our Loved Ones After Their Deaths
November 14, 2004 - Songs of Innocence and Experience
November 7, 2004 - Unspeakable Loneliness
November 4, 2004 - Living with our own Complexities
October 31, 2004 - Carrying Tension
October 24, 2004 - Biblical Anxiety
October 17, 2004 - Failure and the Second Half of Life
October 10, 2004 - Binding and Loosing
October 3, 2004 - Jesus’ Sensitivity
September 19, 2004 - Offering Sanctuary for Sadness
September 12, 2004 - Beauty as God’s Language
September 4, 2004 - The Da Vinci Code
August 29, 2004 - Struggling with Possessiveness
August 22, 2004 - Mourning our Virginity
August 15, 2004 - Conceiving of God – Metaphor and Reality
August 8, 2004 - Irritations and the Spiritual Life
August 1, 2004 - Substance and Appearance
July 26, 2004 - Struggling with Being Blessed
July 25, 2004 - Suicide – The Most Misunderstood of All Deaths
July 18, 2004 - The Mother Tongue
July 11, 2004 - Helping Create a Symphony of Prayer
June 27, 2004 - The Struggle for Sincerity
June 20, 2004 - Providence and the Conspiracy of Accidents
June 6, 2004 - In Our Full Humanity
May 30, 2004 - Conflicting Voices
May 23, 2004 - A Spirituality of the Ascension
May 16, 2004 - The Noonday Devil
May 9, 2004 - A Spirituality of Non-Hurrying
May 2, 2004 - On Becoming Post-Liberal
April 25, 2004 - Setting our Ecclesial Gauges
April 18, 2004 - Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ
April 11, 2004 - Waiting for the Resurrection
April 4, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place of Transformation
March 28, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place to Ready Ourselves for Ordeals
March 21, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – A Place of Prayer
March 14, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place Where Angels Strengthen Us
March 7, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place to Stay Awake
March 1, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place Where You Suffer as a Lover
February 22, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Special Place of Loneliness
February 15, 2004 - Romantic Imagination with Religion
February 4, 2004 - The Law of Karma
February 1, 2004 - Compassion and Truth
January 25, 2004 - Beyond Labels
January 4, 2004 - Facing Otherness and Differences
December 28, 2003 - Interruptions: Our Real Work
December 21, 2003 - On Not Letting the Sky Wilt
December 7, 2003 - Mary as a Model of Faith
November 30, 2003 - The Mary of Piety
November 23, 2003 - Faith and a Time of Agnosticism
November 16, 2003 - Jesus’ Moral Loneliness
November 9, 2003 - Purgatory Revisited
November 2, 2003 - A Wisdom Born of Pain
October 26, 2003 - An Invitation to a Deeper Virtue
October 19, 2003 - The Value of Praying a Doxology
October 12, 2003 - Conservatism is a Good Place to Start From
October 5, 2003 - Dark Nights of the Soul
September 28, 2003 - The Kenosis of God
September 21, 2003 - Living with Criticism
September 14, 2003 - Coping with Complexity
September 7, 2003 - From Self-Protection to Being Food for the Life of the World
September 1, 2003 - The Width of Our Ecclesial Embrace
August 24, 2003 - Spirituality and the Second Half of Life
August 17, 2003 - The Abuse Scandal as a Dark Night of the Soul
August 10, 2003 - Gospel Challenge
August 3, 2003 - True and False Notions of Freedom
July 27, 2003 - Our Misconceptions about Suicide
July 20, 2003 - Our Struggle with Envy
July 13, 2003 - Reading the Signs of the Times
July 6, 2003 - Our Generations’ Particular Task
June 29, 2003 - Against an Eternal Horizon
June 22, 2003 - Moving Beyond Hurt
June 15, 2003 - From Asking to be Carried to Helping Carry
June 8, 2003 - Falling Asleep out of Sorrow
June 1, 2003 - Reflection on Vocations
May 25, 2003 - Faith’s Darkness
May 18, 2003 - Being Missionary to our own Children
May 11, 2003 - Cassie Bernall – Unlikely Martyr
May 4, 2003 - The Potential and Dangers of Powerlessness
April 27, 2003 - Seize the Moment!
April 20, 2003 - The Beauty of Light and Morality
April 13, 2003 - Forgive Them for they know not what they do!
April 6, 2003 - The Value of Ritual in Sustaining Prayer
March 30, 2003 - Contemplative Prayer
March 23, 2003 - Affective Prayer
March 23, 2003 - Seeing the Resurrection
March 16, 2003 - Priestly Prayer – Prayer for the World
March 9, 2003 - Obstacles to Prayer
March 2, 2003 - Pray Always – Prayer as Lifting Mind and Heart to God
February 23, 2003 - A Challenge from our Born-Again and Devotionally-Oriented Siblings
February 16, 2003 - The Churches and the Social Gospel
February 9, 2003 - In Defense of Mystery
February 2, 2003 - The Loneliness of Leaving Home
January 26, 2003 - Pentecost Happened at a Meeting
January 19, 2003 - Ministering with Authority
January 12, 2003 - The Need to Admire
January 5, 2003 - Perspective on a Scandal
December 29, 2002 - Awakening the Christ-Child
December 22, 2002 - On Being Loved Sinners
December 15, 2002 - A Meditation on Joy
December 8, 2002 - The Promise of Christmas
December 1, 2002 - Lighting Advent Candles
November 24, 2002 - Privileged Communication within the Communion of Saints
November 17, 2002 - Twenty Years In Exile
November 10, 2002 - Turning our Eyes Toward Heaven
November 2, 2002 - The Anthropological Function of Gossip
October 27, 2002 - The Dream of Fewness
October 20, 2002 - Living in a Moral Diaspora
October 13, 2002 - The Eucharist as Touch
October 6, 2002 - Polishing our Stones
September 29, 2002 - Kathleen Norris – An Augustine for our Time
September 22, 2002 - Amazing Grace
September 15, 2002 - Faults of the Parents in the Children
September 8, 2002 - Missionaries to Secularity
September 1, 2002 - The Language of Soul
August 25, 2002 - The Tale of Two Flights
August 18, 2002 - The Illusion of our own Innocence
August 11, 2002 - Praying the Psalms
August 4, 2002 - Energy Meets Wisdom
July 28, 2002 - Three Things for Conservatives to Ponder
July 21, 2002 - Three Things for Liberals to Ponder
July 14, 2002 - Bewailing our Virginity
July 7, 2002 - Suicide – When Someone is too Bruised to be Touched
June 30, 2002 - Taking our Rightful Place with the Scheme of Things
June 23, 2002 - The Right to Call Another to a Vocation
June 16, 2002 - Carrying a Scandal
June 9, 2002 - Moving Beyond Our Little Rule
June 2, 2002 - Giving up our need to be right
May 26, 2002 - Ten Tensions to Carry
May 19, 2002 - From the House of Fear to the House of Love
May 12, 2002 - God’s Gender
May 5, 2002 - Where Faith Resides
April 28, 2002 - On Envying the Amoral
April 21, 2002 - A Rich Tradition of the Heart
April 14, 2002 - On Hearing the Voice that Soothes
April 7, 2002 - The Gaze of Sheer Admiration
March 31, 2002 - God’s Resurrecting Power as Ultimate Truth
March 17, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing Christ’s Descent into Hell
March 10, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing God’s Presence in the Poor
March 3, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing the True Cost of Love
March 2, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing the Inner Life of God
February 24, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing the Passion
February 17, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing God’s Unconditional Love
February 10, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing the Non-Violence of Christ
February 3, 2002 - Loneliness and the Second Half of Life
January 27, 2002 - Sexuality and Creativity
January 20, 2002 - Mourning our Inconsummation
January 13, 2002 - The Empathetic Gaze of God
January 6, 2002 - Coping with the Imago Dei
January 1, 2002 - Commandments for the Long Haul
December 25, 2001 - Giving Birth to God
December 17, 2001 - Bridging the Unbridgeable Gap
December 9, 2001 - Haunting Each Other’s Dreams
December 1, 2001 - Purgatory Revisited
November 25, 2001 - The Cosmic Christ
November 18, 2001 - Wrestling with God
November 11, 2001 - Giving our Deaths to our Loved Ones
November 4, 2001 - Praying for the Dead
October 28, 2001 - In Praise of the Ordinary
October 21, 2001 - The Prayer of Helplessness
October 14, 2001 - A Child Not Fully Grown
October 7, 2001 - Remaining in the Upper Room
September 30, 2001 - God’s Risk…..Our Freedom
September 23, 2001 - Practical Hope
September 16, 2001 - And the Whole World Changed
September 9, 2001 - God Underneath – A Priest’s Diary
September 2, 2001 - Being Born From Above
August 26, 2001 - Receiving our Faith Tradition
August 19, 2001 - A Culture of Amazement
August 12, 2001 - Anxiety as the Opposite of Faith
August 5, 2001 - Real and False Humility
July 29, 2001 - Splitting the Inner Atom
July 22, 2001 - Our Misunderstanding about Suicide
July 15, 2001 - On Naming The Present Moment
July 8, 2001 - On Not Committing the Original Sin
July 3, 2001 - Praying for Pentecost
July 1, 2001 - A Parable of Grace
June 24, 2001 - Moral Loneliness
June 10, 2001 - Finding God in Community
June 1, 2001 - Beyond Ideology
May 20, 2001 - The Mystical Body
May 13, 2001 - The Grace in Creativity
May 6, 2001 - The McVeigh Execution
April 22, 2001 - Praying Lauds and Vespers
April 15, 2001 - Living Beyond our Crucifixions
April 8, 2001 - Eucharist as Vigil
April 1, 2001 - The Eucharist as Washing Each Other’s Feet
March 25, 2001 - The Eucharist as Reconciliation
March 18, 2001 - The Eucharist as Sacrifice
March 11, 2001 - Eucharist as New Manna
March 4, 2001 - The Eucharist as Molding us into Community
February 25, 2001 - Eucharist as God’s Physical Embrace
February 18, 2001 - Love of Enemy as the Text of Orthodoxy
February 11, 2001 - Affective Prayer
February 4, 2001 - The Tension Between Theology and Piety
January 28, 2001 - In Praise of Silence
January 21, 2001 - Carrying Ecclesial Disprivilege
January 14, 2001 - From Maintenance to Missionary
January 7, 2001 - The Domestic Monastery
January 1, 2001 - Commandments for Making Friends
December 17, 2000 - Advent: Curing Fire by Fire
December 10, 2000 - Advent: Gestating Hope into Reality
December 10, 2000 - The Joy of Children as the Prophetic Message of Christmas
December 3, 2000 - Advent: Creating a Space of Chastity
November 26, 2000 - Advent: Preparing for the Sublime
November 19, 2000 - Culpable and Inculpable Ignorance
November 12, 2000 - Weeping in a Valley of Tears
October 29, 2000 - Being Present to God and Life
October 15, 2000 - Risking God’s Mercy
October 8, 2000 - Religious Literacy
October 1, 2000 - The Olympic Games
September 24, 2000 - The Notion of Suicide Revisited
September 17, 2000 - On Not Overreacting to Criticism
September 10, 2000 - Christ’s Face in Today’s Priesthood
September 3, 2000 - Re-Imaging Jesus
August 27, 2000 - The Tyranny of Program
August 20, 2000 - A Spirituality of Parenting
August 13, 2000 - A Not-so-subtle Return to the Survival of the Fittest
August 6, 2000 - Where the Cross is Forever Erected
July 30, 2000 - Suicide – Some Misconceptions
July 23, 2000 - Amazement as Blocking Compassion
July 16, 2000 - Following Jesus – Be ready for some Surprises
July 9, 2000 - Giving up Your Gun
July 2, 2000 - Love’s DNA
June 25, 2000 - The Church in Europe – Lessons to be Learned
June 18, 2000 - On Sex And The Unsurrendered Life
June 11, 2000 - Pagan Beauty
June 4, 2000 - In Praise of Skin
May 28, 2000 - Needed: Saints and Prophets within Secularity
May 21, 2000 - What makes for a practicing Christian?
May 14, 2000 - Learning the Language of Rebirth
May 7, 2000 - When Doing Nothing is Enough
April 23, 2000 - Daily Resurrection
April 16, 2000 - The Tearing of the Temple Veil
April 9, 2000 - The Desert of Gethsemane
April 2, 2000 - The Desert – the place of God’s Closeness
March 19, 2000 - Facing our Demons in the Desert
March 12, 2000 - The Desert: A Place of Preparation
March 5, 2000 - The Ashes of Lent
February 27, 2000 - Post-Modern Nihilism
February 20, 2000 - In Defense of Chastity in a Post-Chaste Culture
February 13, 2000 - Colour and Wisdom in God’s Face
February 6, 2000 - A Lonely Place from which to Pray and Speak
January 30, 2000 - In Defense of Daily Eucharist
January 23, 2000 - The Storm on the Lake
January 8, 2000 - Facing up to the Chaos
January 2, 2000 - The Death of Innocence
December 21, 1999 - Celebrating a New Millennium
December 14, 1999 - The Christmas Symbols
December 12, 1999 - Readying Ourselves For Christmas
December 5, 1999 - A Theology Of Longing And Desire
November 28, 1999 - Two Concepts of Holiness
November 21, 1999 - Descartes’ Children
November 14, 1999 - Praying for the Dead
November 7, 1999 - Biblical Metanoia
October 31, 1999 - Needed: Three New Saints
October 22, 1999 - Our Real Loss of Innocence
October 17, 1999 - Peace To Those Who Enjoy God’s Favour
October 10, 1999 - Satan And The Devil
October 3, 1999 - Critics And Artists
September 26, 1999 - Being In Solidarity With A Mixed World
September 19, 1999 - Three Prophetic Challenges for our Generation
September 12, 1999 - Faith and the Imagination
September 5, 1999 - Powerlessness and Frustration
August 29, 1999 - God’s Unconditional Love
August 22, 1999 - Needed – A Theology of Original Sin
August 15, 1999 - On Not Hiding From God
August 8, 1999 - Annual Thoughts From The Court-Jester
August 1, 1999 - Christ As Wounded
July 25, 1999 - Suicide – Love Through Locked Doors
July 2, 1999 - Our Mystical Centre
June 25, 1999 - The Transforming Power of Beauty
June 20, 1999 - Turning the Other Cheek
June 13, 1999 - Moral Discourse
May 30, 1999 - Choosing A Different Kind Of Heaven
May 23, 1999 - How Jesus Takes Away The Sin Of The World
May 16, 1999 - God Sends The Rich Away Empty!
May 10, 1999 - Celebrating the Jubilee Year
May 2, 1999 - The Power of Helplessness
April 25, 1999 - The Summer of my Discontent
April 18, 1999 - The Least Glamorous of all Sicknesses
April 11, 1999 - The Humiliation of God
March 25, 1999 - Holy Thursday and the Eucharist
March 20, 1999 - Commandments For The Long Haul
March 14, 1999 - Sustaining Family Life Today
March 4, 1999 - Family Life as Sacrament
February 28, 1999 - The Family As A School Of Charity
February 21, 1999 - The Family as Church and Religious Community
February 12, 1999 - The Deconstruction of the Family
February 5, 1999 - Bill Clinton – A Baby-Boomer Parable
January 31, 1999 - Waiting
January 24, 1999 - Divine Providence
January 10, 1999 - Second Naivete
December 27, 1998 - Truth Is Found In Paradox
December 16, 1998 - Chastity’s Challenge
December 14, 1998 - A Child is Born
December 13, 1998 - Waiting for Christmas to Come
December 6, 1998 - The Moral And Spiritual Gain Within Our Generation
November 29, 1998 - The Rejected One As Cornerstone
November 22, 1998 - Life Versus Wisdom
November 16, 1998 - On Naming The Present Moment
November 6, 1998 - Three Conversion Movements
November 1, 1998 - What Is Religion All About?
October 25, 1998 - Bill Gates and Albert Camus
October 16, 1998 - Facing a New Challenge
October 11, 1998 - Our Limited Agnosticism
October 4, 1998 - Transparency and Community
September 26, 1998 - A Christian Attitude Towards the World
September 19, 1998 - Some Global Perspectives
September 13, 1998 - One Spirit – One Source of All
September 3, 1998 - Our Interior Codes
August 29, 1998 - Ideology makes for Strange Judgments
August 22, 1998 - The Poverty and Soul of Lavinia Andrews
August 13, 1998 - Self-Image and the Two Halves of Life
August 6, 1998 - Why Church Attendance is Dropping
July 30, 1998 - Monks Have Secrets Worth Knowing
July 23, 1998 - Shedding Things
July 10, 1998 - Some Principles for Justice
July 5, 1998 - Happiness and Paradox
June 28, 1998 - Tensions within Spirituality
June 17, 1998 - Promise Keepers
June 7, 1998 - Losing a Loved One to Suicide
June 1, 1998 - Church as Larry’s Party
May 28, 1998 - A Mature Sexuality
May 21, 1998 - Faith through Mysticism
May 14, 1998 - Carrying Tension
April 30, 1998 - Baptism As The Conscriptive Rope
April 23, 1998 - A Report From The Jesters Annual Convention
April 19, 1998 - The Importance of Mellowness of Heart
April 13, 1998 - Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us
April 2, 1998 - Resurrection and the Voice of Good Friday
March 26, 1998 - Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Fear of the Lord
March 19, 1998 - Gifts of The Holy Spirit – Piety
March 12, 1998 - Gifts of the Spirit: Fortitude
March 5, 1998 - The Gift of Counsel
February 19, 1998 - The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
February 12, 1998 - The Myth of Redemptive Violence
January 29, 1998 - Choosing Against Happiness
January 21, 1998 - Sacred Violence
January 14, 1998 - The Effects of Pornography
January 9, 1998 - Managing an Ascension
December 19, 1997 - A Crisis Of Imagination
December 14, 1997 - 1998 The Year of the Holy Spirit
December 12, 1997 - The Mysticism of the Crib
December 10, 1997 - Wrestling With God
December 4, 1997 - Longing At The Centre
November 27, 1997 - One of Isaiah’s Visions
November 20, 1997 - Purgative Embrace
November 12, 1997 - Living Beyond Doubt
November 6, 1997 - No Exempt Areas
October 30, 1997 - God as Victim
October 23, 1997 - Some Christian Koans
October 16, 1997 - Dark Memory
October 9, 1997 - On God’s Gender
October 2, 1997 - Chastity: Not Our Virtue
September 25, 1997 - Remembering Mother Teresa
September 18, 1997 - Balancing Action And Contemplation
September 11, 1997 - The Death of a Princess
September 4, 1997 - The Way Of Trust
August 28, 1997 - Prophetic Balance
August 21, 1997 - The Good Samaritan
August 13, 1997 - Heaven’s Language
August 7, 1997 - Ad Usum
July 31, 1997 - The Way Of Surrender
July 17, 1997 - Post-Modernism And Our Children
July 9, 1997 - On Praying The Hours
July 2, 1997 - Children Of Our God – And Of Our Elders
June 26, 1997 - Moving On
June 19, 1997 - The Reality of God
June 12, 1997 - Our Children and the Church
June 4, 1997 - Love Is The Eye
May 29, 1997 - Inculturation – The Present Struggle
May 22, 1997 - Solidarity With The Poor
May 15, 1997 - Social Justice and Pop Icons
May 7, 1997 - Recognizing Him In The Spilling Of The Wine
April 30, 1997 - Overcoming Anger – The Final Spiritual Struggle
April 23, 1997 - Jesus’ Way of Wisdom
April 17, 1997 - A Mother Quivering With Delight
March 23, 1997 - And The Atoms Moved
March 19, 1997 - Bury The Dead
March 13, 1997 - Ransom the Captive
March 5, 1997 - Visit the Sick
February 19, 1997 - Clothe the Naked
February 13, 1997 - Give Drink to the Thirsty
February 12, 1997 - Jesus Before Pilate
February 8, 1997 - Feed the Hungry
February 8, 1997 - Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat
February 2, 1997 - The Corporal Works of Mercy
January 19, 1997 - The Evangelization of Desire
January 15, 1997 - From Gifted Child To Giving Adult
January 8, 1997 - Common Ground
January 3, 1997 - The Court Jester’s New Year’s Advice
December 23, 1996 - Christmas – A Time To Rise Above Gloom
December 18, 1996 - Happiness and Meaning
December 16, 1996 - The Power of a Candle
December 4, 1996 - Advent Longing
November 27, 1996 - Helping To Give Birth To God’s Body
November 18, 1996 - Self-Obsession Robs Us Of Joy
November 13, 1996 - Fear Not You Are Inadequate!
November 5, 1996 - Living with an Unnatural Wound
October 29, 1996 - Christian Perspective
October 23, 1996 - On Jesus and Socrates
October 16, 1996 - Some Gathering Hymns for Social Justice
October 14, 1996 - Recovering Catholics
October 9, 1996 - Henri Nouwen: In Memoriam
September 29, 1996 - The Gentle Powerless Power Of God
September 18, 1996 - An Apologia
September 16, 1996 - Why it’s not Good to be Alone
August 21, 1996 - It Is Not Good To Be Alone
August 14, 1996 - Moral Artists
August 7, 1996 - What Defines A Practicing Catholic?
July 31, 1996 - Listening To Your Widows
July 23, 1996 - The Worst Kind Of Poverty
July 17, 1996 - Dreaming With Others
July 10, 1996 - Secrets of the Kingdom
July 2, 1996 - Beyond Liberal And Conservative
June 12, 1996 - Fidelity Not Success
June 5, 1996 - The Prayer of a College Student
May 22, 1996 - A Lord’s Prayer For Justice
May 15, 1996 - Faults After Initial Conversion
May 8, 1996 - Flowers And The Rich Young Man
April 24, 1996 - Wasn’t It Necessary
April 22, 1996 - A Greed That Poisons The Spirit
April 22, 1996 - Binding And Loosing
April 8, 1996 - Lying Forms the Root of Bitterness
April 2, 1996 - The Resurrection of Christ brings forth Forgiveness
March 27, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Goods: The Tenth Commandment
March 20, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Wife: The Ninth Commandment
March 13, 1996 - On Not Bearing False Witness: The Eighth Commandment
March 6, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Steal: The Seventh Commandment
February 25, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery: The Sixth Commandment
February 20, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Fifth Commandment
February 13, 1996 - Honour Your Father and Mother: The Fourth Commandment
February 5, 1996 - Remember To Keep Holy The Sabbath Day: The Third Commandment
February 1, 1996 - You Shall Not Take The Name Of The Lord In Vain: The Second Commandment
January 27, 1996 - You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me: The First Commandment
January 24, 1996 - Protect Us From All Anxiety
January 17, 1996 - Daily Mass
January 10, 1996 - In Defense of Religion
January 3, 1996 - 1996 Will Be A Good Year If
December 5, 1995 - A Human Saint
December 4, 1995 - The Fire that Shimmers Deep Within Things
November 29, 1995 - The Christ Movement Downwards
November 20, 1995 - It’s a Lot Easier to Take Care of Ourselves
November 6, 1995 - A Church Grieves Its Lost Innocence
November 1, 1995 - The Pharisee And The Publican
October 18, 1995 - Celibacy And Holy Longing
October 15, 1995 - Social Justice Essential to the Gospel
October 12, 1995 - Smiling God Undermines Our Workaholism
October 4, 1995 - Walking With The Alienated
September 27, 1995 - Self-Pity And Care-Giving
September 20, 1995 - Finding Our Loved Ones After Death
September 12, 1995 - Equipped To Handle Frustration
September 6, 1995 - Nuggets to Keep
August 30, 1995 - Shamed In Our Enthusiasm
August 23, 1995 - Appreciative Consciousness
August 16, 1995 - The Treasures of the Church
August 8, 1995 - New Age – A Critical Look
August 2, 1995 - Passing On A Blessing
August 1, 1995 - Initiating Blind Desire
July 26, 1995 - Prophets as Shock Absorbers
July 19, 1995 - A Theologian’s Problems
July 12, 1995 - Chastity is the Key to Everything
June 14, 1995 - Celibacy As Solidarity With The Poor
June 14, 1995 - Gestating Compassion
June 2, 1995 - The Word Made Flesh
May 31, 1995 - Chastity Revisited
May 24, 1995 - A Time for Reconstruction
May 17, 1995 - Safe in God’s Arms
May 7, 1995 - Social Justice: Not An Option
May 3, 1995 - The Wreck Of The Deutschland
May 1, 1995 - No Rut Like My Own!
April 24, 1995 - Choosing Between Two Kinds of Storm
April 19, 1995 - Difficulties In Living The Free Life
April 12, 1995 - I Believe In The Resurrection
April 4, 1995 - By His Stripes We Are Healed
March 28, 1995 - Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat
March 21, 1995 - The Passing of a Shepherd
March 14, 1995 - Two Great gods
March 8, 1995 - Our Children and God’s Love
March 7, 1995 - Flanked By Thieves
February 20, 1995 - Strangers Can Bring God’s Revelation
February 13, 1995 - A Vespers For The World
February 6, 1995 - Say ‘Thank You’ By Enjoying The Gift
January 31, 1995 - Welcoming the Stranger
January 24, 1995 - The Court Jester Goes To The Zoo
January 9, 1995 - New Year’s Resolutions Testify To Faith
December 19, 1994 - Silent Hidden Gestation
December 14, 1994 - God’s Descent into the Secular
November 29, 1994 - Preparing for Christmas
November 23, 1994 - Silent Hidden Gestation
November 16, 1994 - Non-Violence Essential To Moral Living
November 9, 1994 - In Exile
November 2, 1994 - The Communion Of Saints: An Untapped Doctrine
October 19, 1994 - Some Rules for Peace-Making
October 12, 1994 - Is God There In The End?
October 10, 1994 - Demonizing Other People
September 27, 1994 - What Does God Look Like?
September 26, 1994 - Grace and Forgiveness
September 19, 1994 - Questions Without Answers
September 12, 1994 - A Childhood Friend
September 6, 1994 - Blessing As Dying To Give Life
August 31, 1994 - Staying in the Church
August 24, 1994 - Youthful Friendship
August 22, 1994 - Weakness Builds The Soul
August 17, 1994 - Economics and Justice
August 2, 1994 - Taking God Seriously
July 26, 1994 - The Insufficiency of Everything Attainable
July 13, 1994 - Thinking Of Ourselves As Victims
July 4, 1994 - Bound to Christ
July 4, 1994 - Inferiority Builds The Soul
July 2, 1994 - Beyond Peter Pan and Tinkerbell
June 29, 1994 - Sex and Soul
June 27, 1994 - Our Need to Kneel
June 22, 1994 - Weeping With A Wall-Eyed Pike
June 15, 1994 - Liturgical Tips From The Pew
June 7, 1994 - What Shapes A Soul?
June 1, 1994 - Needing Someone to Adore
May 25, 1994 - Thou Shalt Not Betray!
May 16, 1994 - Being for the World
May 2, 1994 - Celestial Marriage Counselling
April 27, 1994 - Blocking Pentecost
April 25, 1994 - Belief in Resurrection
April 20, 1994 - Mourning A Passing
April 18, 1994 - Passion and Purity
April 12, 1994 - Waging Peace
April 6, 1994 - Revirginization Revisited
April 4, 1994 - Bless This House
April 1, 1994 - No Trumpets For Men
March 30, 1994 - I Believe in the Resurrection
March 28, 1994 - Yearly thoughts From The Court Fool!
March 23, 1994 - The Embrace Of Good Friday
March 21, 1994 - Waiting for a Wildflower
March 14, 1994 - The Restless Heart
March 7, 1994 - The New Legalism – The Tyranny Of Programs
February 28, 1994 - Thinking Small
February 21, 1994 - Tenderness And Politics
February 14, 1994 - Rooted In Honesty
February 7, 1994 - Broken and Distributed
January 31, 1994 - The Restless Spirit
January 24, 1994 - Some Of The People
January 17, 1994 - A Church Which Comforts
January 16, 1994 - My Parents Shaped My Soul
January 10, 1994 - Ten New Commandments
December 27, 1993 - David Facing Goliath
December 20, 1993 - Headlong into the Pudding
December 20, 1993 - Headlong Into The Pudding
December 13, 1993 - They Were Moral Lovers
December 6, 1993 - Life’s Incessant Longing
November 29, 1993 - A Sensual Heaven
November 22, 1993 - Blessed By Being Seen
November 15, 1993 - Truth Comes Tainted
November 8, 1993 - A Humbled Heart
November 1, 1993 - Your Dad Only Dies Once
October 25, 1993 - Therapy of Public Life
October 11, 1993 - Truth and Beauty
October 4, 1993 - Sex is a Moral Issue
September 27, 1993 - Of Oranges and Pennies
September 20, 1993 - Kissing the Leper
September 14, 1993 - Sex And Morality
September 6, 1993 - Scapegoating Priests
August 23, 1993 - Ever So Brief A Glory
August 9, 1993 - Humanae Vitae … 25 Years Later
July 21, 1993 - An Honest Anger
July 14, 1993 - Eucharist as God’s Touch
July 5, 1993 - Longing for Innocence
June 28, 1993 - Hungry for Blessing
June 21, 1993 - God Locked Them In!
June 14, 1993 - Ice Cream Vs. Beans
June 7, 1993 - Memories Dispel Depression
May 31, 1993 - The Prodigal Son’s Brother
May 26, 1993 - Religion’s True Birthright
May 17, 1993 - Ordinary Ground is Holy
May 10, 1993 - Truth With Gentleness
May 3, 1993 - Called Out Of Darkness
April 26, 1993 - Love Is Resilient
April 19, 1993 - The Pursuit Of Innocence
April 12, 1993 - A Shallow Compassion
April 5, 1993 - Dying In Order To Live
March 29, 1993 - In Praise Of Fools
March 22, 1993 - Pro-Life Prayer Needs Flesh
March 15, 1993 - God Is The Real Parent
March 8, 1993 - Virtue in Self-sacrifice
March 1, 1993 - An Old Monk’s Question
February 15, 1993 - A Marvellous Symphony
February 8, 1993 - The Polished Stone
February 1, 1993 - The Gender Of God
January 25, 1993 - A Tired, Depressed People
January 14, 1993 - The Power Of The Resurrection
January 11, 1993 - A Thousand Little Things
January 8, 1993 - Resolutions That Last
December 28, 1992 - Signs of a Good Marriage
December 21, 1992 - The Incarnation Means God is in the Ordinary
December 14, 1992 - Reacting to Sinead
December 7, 1992 - We Have Gone Too Far
November 30, 1992 - Drawing Fire From Tradition
November 23, 1992 - Ten Years Of ‘In Exile’
November 16, 1992 - Mourning Incompleteness
November 9, 1992 - Grieving Life’s Inadequacy
November 2, 1992 - Social Justice Revisited
October 26, 1992 - The Spirituality of Eugene de Mazenod
October 19, 1992 - Absent From Our Own Lives
October 12, 1992 - Blessed By Our Roots
October 5, 1992 - Solitude Sends Us Reeling
September 28, 1992 - The Limits Of Love
September 16, 1992 - Non-Selective Tears
September 10, 1992 - Understanding The Desert Of Loneliness
September 7, 1992 - A Frustrated Hunger
August 31, 1992 - Playing In The Sun
July 27, 1992 - Faith Requires Religion
July 18, 1992 - Life Calls For Mourning
July 10, 1992 - The Vale Of Tears
July 6, 1992 - A Role Reversal At Death
June 29, 1992 - Giving Birth Through Death
June 22, 1992 - Living in the Holy Spirit
June 15, 1992 - A Mystic for Today
June 8, 1992 - Chaos And Original Sin
June 1, 1992 - The Traditional Idea Of Love And Marriage – Under Siege
May 25, 1992 - Gratitude the Basic Virtue
May 18, 1992 - A Grieving Church
May 11, 1992 - Justice and Spirituality
May 4, 1992 - Taken Completely by God
April 27, 1992 - Truth and the Resurrection
April 25, 1992 - An Evening With Jim Wallis
April 20, 1992 - Life’s Quest for Service
April 13, 1992 - A Cast of Characters
April 6, 1992 - A Culture of Complaint
March 30, 1992 - Sitting in the Ashes
March 23, 1992 - Another Type Of Icon
March 16, 1992 - The Prayer Of Charity
March 9, 1992 - A Lesson Of Fundamentalism
March 2, 1992 - A Heart With Many Rooms
February 24, 1992 - Let’s Look At Neo-Paganism
February 22, 1992 - Cultivating Loneliness
February 17, 1992 - AIDS In The Body Of Christ
February 10, 1992 - When Love Goes Inarticulate
January 27, 1992 - Anger Can Be Self-Serving
January 20, 1992 - Church Running Out Of Priests
January 13, 1992 - Our Whole World is Holy
January 5, 1992 - The Illusion of Familiarity
December 23, 1991 - Time to Examine Life’s Gifts
December 19, 1991 - Wide Loyalties … The Call of a True Catholicism
December 16, 1991 - How to Give Birth to God
December 10, 1991 - A Christmas Story
November 30, 1991 - Bath in the Essence of Advent
November 24, 1991 - Frustrated Goddesses and Grieving Warriors
November 16, 1991 - Christiane Brusselmans RIP
November 7, 1991 - Family As Idolatry
November 2, 1991 - Providence and the Conspiracy of Accidents
October 27, 1991 - The Sacramentality Of Everyday Life
October 21, 1991 - A Communion with the Saints
October 6, 1991 - Eucharist In The Time Of Insufficient Ministers
September 28, 1991 - Unfinished Symphonies
September 10, 1991 - The Eucharist – Word And Ritual
September 6, 1991 - An Anniversary To Mark
August 31, 1991 - Justice And Anger
August 16, 1991 - Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut
August 11, 1991 - Breaking The Eucharistic Bread
August 4, 1991 - A Child and the Kingdom
July 31, 1991 - Sexuality and Honesty
July 21, 1991 - Finding Rest For Our Souls
July 13, 1991 - Rhetoric Which Divides Community
July 8, 1991 - Infantile Grandiosity and the Image of God
June 10, 1991 - The Eucharist as Sacrament of Reconciliation
June 8, 1991 - Criticism
May 30, 1991 - How Not To Commit The Original Sin
May 27, 1991 - A Hidden Life
May 26, 1991 - Healthy and Unhealthy Fear of Hell
May 6, 1991 - Moral Loneliness
April 15, 1991 - Social Justice – New Knowledge/New Responsibility
April 8, 1991 - A Dark Night Of Spirit
April 1, 1991 - Young In God’s Eyes
March 23, 1991 - The Importance Of The Empty Tomb
March 17, 1991 - Invincible Ignorance and Good Friday
March 11, 1991 - Poetic Imagination
February 28, 1991 - The Interrupted Life
February 18, 1991 - Paschal Imagination
February 10, 1991 - Take Up Your Couch And Walk
February 3, 1991 - Love and our Baptismal Robes
January 27, 1991 - A Prayer for Peace
January 20, 1991 - Reaction to War (First in a two part series)
January 15, 1991 - Blessing And Cursing Life
December 5, 1990 - The Incarnation Honors the Flesh
December 2, 1990 - What is a Father?
November 25, 1990 - Optimism Or Pessimism
November 15, 1990 - An Open Letter from a Restless Pilgrim
November 11, 1990 - Understanding Suicide
November 4, 1990 - Unnoticed Blood
October 28, 1990 - The Miracle Of It All!
October 12, 1990 - A Vocation for the Last Stage of Life
September 29, 1990 - Consolation In Old Prayers
September 20, 1990 - Further Reflections on Catholic Annulments
September 17, 1990 - Beyond Ideology II
September 12, 1990 - Beyond Ideology (1st in a 2-part series)
September 6, 1990 - On Sabbatical
September 3, 1990 - Goods, Gods and Eastern Europe
August 20, 1990 - The Journey Of A Soul
August 15, 1990 - Hesitation and Reserve … Virtue or Timidity?
July 16, 1990 - Interruptions Can Be Our Real Work
June 16, 1990 - Annulments – Catholic Divorce?
June 10, 1990 - Abrasive Rhetoric
May 7, 1990 - Masculine Spirituality
April 29, 1990 - Sex As Sacrament
April 23, 1990 - The Struggle for Wholeness
April 9, 1990 - Prophecy II
March 26, 1990 - Prophecy
March 12, 1990 - Prayer Life Needs Rhythm, Ritual
February 26, 1990 - Won’t Someone Please Stop Me?
February 12, 1990 - We Need A Heart With Many Rooms
January 29, 1990 - Death Washes Things Clean
January 15, 1990 - A Chance to meet the Lynx’s Eye
December 18, 1989 - The Real Christmas Story
December 4, 1989 - Curing Fire By Fire
November 20, 1989 - The Monasticism Of Daily Life
November 6, 1989 - Social Justice And Contemplation
October 23, 1989 - Romero Died Before He Was Killed
October 9, 1989 - High Season For Religion Foes
September 25, 1989 - Soft Peddling The Truth?
September 11, 1989 - Romance Gives Inkling Of Heaven
August 28, 1989 - Pedophilia Raises Hard Questions
July 17, 1989 - Denying Power Of Sex Dangerous
July 3, 1989 - Yuppie Excellence Lacks Depth
June 19, 1989 - Fear Of Tenderness Stifles Soul
June 5, 1989 - It’s Easy To Sacrifice Others
May 22, 1989 - We Can’t Turn Away From Politics
May 8, 1989 - Church’s Rebirth Followed Pain
April 29, 1989 - Listening To Different Voices
April 10, 1989 - Being Normal Is Not Our Goal
March 27, 1989 - Easter Should Be An Eye Opener
March 13, 1989 - Cross Symbolizes Hope For Al
February 20, 1989 - Value Of Fasting And Feasting
January 2, 1989 - Pro-Life And Anti-Abortion
January 1, 1989 - Sacrifice Frees Us From Guilt
December 1, 1988 - Some Of Life’s Questions
November 1, 1988 - A Heart With One Room
October 2, 1988 - Church Needs More Laughing Fools
October 1, 1988 - Love Is Coming Home
September 2, 1988 - Worldly Evil: The Faith Test
September 1, 1988 - Controversial Film Misunderstood
August 1, 1988 - Can You Ever Really Leave Home?
July 2, 1988 - Living Under A Merciful God
July 1, 1988 - Be Brave, Admit Your Sinfulness
June 2, 1988 - Crying Out For Real Community
June 1, 1988 - Community – Our Greatest Need
May 2, 1988 - Pentecost: A Need For Our Lives
May 1, 1988 - Restless Hearts Yearn For God
April 2, 1988 - Slow The Rat Race, Take A Rest
April 1, 1988 - Midwifery – A Christian Vocation
March 2, 1988 - The Cross As Unconditional Love
February 2, 1988 - Tales Of Two Earthy Saints
February 1, 1988 - Don’t Kill Santa Claus Too Soon
January 2, 1988 - God Overcomes Scrambled Eggs
January 1, 1988 - God Speaks Through Children
December 2, 1987 - Single Life Offers Opportunities
December 1, 1987 - Make Space For Christ In Life
November 2, 1987 - A Recipe For Life’s Blender
November 1, 1987 - Taking The Sting Out Of Life
October 2, 1987 - Pagan Saints For Modern Sinners
October 1, 1987 - God Beats Small-Time Blues
September 2, 1987 - Make Your Welcome Hearty
September 1, 1987 - Saying Goodbye Part Of Life
August 1, 1987 - Sitting At A Mystic’s Feet
July 2, 1987 - Choosing Between Sacraments
July 1, 1987 - Leaving God’s Mark
June 1, 1987 - Our Greed Pulls The Trigger
May 2, 1987 - Longing Is Our Spiritual Lot
May 1, 1987 - Staring Chaos In The Face
April 2, 1987 - Saints For Complex People
April 1, 1987 - Easter Arsonists Of The Heart
March 2, 1987 - Keep Your Faith In Balance
March 1, 1987 - Living In Joy Is Hard Work!
February 2, 1987 - Conversion Is Revolution!
February 1, 1987 - When Sinners Rationalize
January 2, 1987 - Signals That Spell Sanctity
January 1, 1987 - The Martyrdom Of Obscurity
December 2, 1986 - Born Into The Ordinary
December 1, 1986 - Like Green Logs In The Fire
November 2, 1986 - Fr. Walgrave, We’ll Miss You
November 1, 1986 - Monasticism And Family Life
October 2, 1986 - Abortion: No Quick Solutions
October 1, 1986 - In Much Better Hands Than Ours
September 2, 1986 - Guidelines For The Long Haul
September 1, 1986 - A Showdown With True Love
August 1, 1986 - Alive With Prophetic Pain
July 2, 1986 - Friendship Is Liberating, Too
July 1, 1986 - Just Too Busy To Bow Down
June 2, 1986 - Dare To Be One In A Thousand
June 1, 1986 - A Life Handcrafted By God
May 2, 1986 - No Salvation In Sexology
May 1, 1986 - Hatred Is Not Always Bad
April 2, 1986 - A String Of Empty Tombs
April 1, 1986 - Love Through Locked Doors
March 2, 1986 - Godlessness and Good Friday
March 1, 1986 - Veronica’s Veil
February 2, 1986 - The ‘Loser’ As Victor
February 1, 1986 - Worshipping In Anguish
January 2, 1986 - Keep Praying For The Dead
January 1, 1986 - Terror And Triumph
December 1, 1985 - Our Savior In The Flesh!
November 1, 1985 - From Grateful to Giving
October 31, 1985 - The Unfinished Symphony
October 1, 1985 - Falling Into God’s Arms
September 30, 1985 - From Fantasy To Fulfilment
September 2, 1985 - More Tantrums Than Tears
September 1, 1985 - Becoming The Real Thing
August 1, 1985 - Whose Kingdom, Lord?
August 1, 1985 - Married To Sacrifice
July 2, 1985 - Our Greed Pulls The Trigger
July 1, 1985 - Closed To Love, Open To Hate
June 3, 1985 - Paschal Mystery: The New You
June 2, 1985 - Paschal Death: Letting Go
June 1, 1985 - Making Room For Compassion
May 31, 1985 - Abortion
May 2, 1985 - Sexuality
May 1, 1985 - Suicide, Despair and Compassion
April 1, 1985 - Mary Magdala’s Easter Prayer
March 2, 1985 - Expressing Our Affection
March 1, 1985 - Jesus Was A Good Loser
February 1, 1985 - Staying Home On A Friday Night
February 1, 1985 - The Eucharist Is An Embrace
January 2, 1985 - Compassion And Abortion
January 1, 1985 - Three Praises Of Fantasy
December 1, 1984 - Incarnation As God With Us
November 2, 1984 - Life Is A Messy Business
November 1, 1984 - People Don’t Break Easily
October 2, 1984 - Keeping Fire In The Eyes
October 1, 1984 - Getting Angry With God
September 10, 1984 - Hope at the time of death
September 2, 1984 - A Diet Of Antiseptics
August 2, 1984 - Symbols Give Us Meaning
July 31, 1984 - Praying Through A Crisis
July 2, 1984 - Passion Is God’s Fire In Us
July 1, 1984 - A Summer Of Centering
June 2, 1984 - A Theologian’s Problems
June 1, 1984 - Remembering As Surgery
May 3, 1984 - Saying ‘Yes’ To Santa Claus
May 2, 1984 - The Real Loss Of Virginity
May 1, 1984 - On Sensible And Stupid Risks
April 2, 1984 - Spring And The Resurrection
April 1, 1984 - On The Road To Emmaus
March 2, 1984 - Splitting The Atom Of Love
March 1, 1984 - Celebrating Our Alphabet
February 15, 1984 - All That Is Truly Masculine
February 3, 1984 - Receiving Truth As A Friend
January 15, 1984 - The Binding of Isaac
January 2, 1984 - Floating Bottles Out To Sea
December 12, 1983 - Disturbing One’s Breakfast
November 29, 1983 - Passing On The Spirit
November 21, 1983 - The Bad Time Comes
October 24, 1983 - Religion, Sex and Suffering
October 17, 1983 - Taming The Bad Dog Within
October 3, 1983 - Christ Still Has Human Flesh
September 26, 1983 - Incarnation Imparts Power
September 12, 1983 - The Scent Of Unseen Roses
August 29, 1983 - The Paradox Of Priesthood
August 15, 1983 - Theologian Hard To Recognize
August 1, 1983 - The Death Of A Soldier
July 18, 1983 - Weakness Leads To Strength
July 4, 1983 - Zorba and Religion
June 13, 1983 - Guilt Thwarts Celebration
June 6, 1983 - Emerging From Stone
May 25, 1983 - Keeping One’s Perspective
May 9, 1983 - Author Tells Merton’s Story
April 11, 1983 - Despair And Resurrection
March 28, 1983 - Eleventh Hour Conversions
March 14, 1983 - Getting in Touch with Hate
February 28, 1983 - Poverty and Transfiguration
February 14, 1983 - Sexual Wholeness Is True Liberation
January 31, 1983 - Resurrection Through Time
December 27, 1982 - The Dark Nights and Human Emotions
December 14, 1982 - Virgin Birth
December 6, 1982 - Spirituality An Erotic Urge
November 29, 1982 - Experience May Lead To Hell
November 15, 1982 - Our Lives Are Lived In Exile