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