• Work – Hindrance or Grace in our Spiritual Lives?

  When I was in high school we read a short German story entitled Immensee. It’s the story of a love that never happened, but that should have, except that the

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• You Must Have a Wonderful Mom

  There is an instance in the Gospels where, while Jesus is speaking, a woman from the crowd calls out to him: “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the

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• Relating To Our Loved Ones After They Die

  In nineteen seventy-nine, Sheldon Vanauken published a book entitled A Severe Mercy; in it he tells the story of the death of his wife, Davey. The book is an account

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• An Anniversary

  In telling his faith story, C.S. Lewis shares that at the moment of his conversion, he was “the most reluctant convert in the history of Christianity”, but that he gave

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• The Original Sin

  I once had the privilege of taking a course from James Mackey. In class one day he shared this story. A man he knew was part of a hunting expedition

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• The Conspiracy of Accidents Through Which God Speaks

  A woman once shared this story in one of my classes: She had been raised in a religious home and had been a regular churchgoer. However, during her years at

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• An Irritated Melancholy

  We live in a world where, as Karl Rahner says, our lives are always an unfinished symphony. In this life there is no final fulfillment. Mostly we are unconscious of

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• Toward an Understanding of Suicide

  Every year I try to write an article on suicide because it is perhaps the most misunderstood of all deaths and it wreaks a unique havoc among the family and

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• When Are We Home?

  More than anything else, we long for home. Our deep ache for intimacy, security, and comfort is, in the end, a longing for home, nothing more. We are forever restlessly

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• Reflection and Poems on Heartbreak

  When I reflect on the spirituality I was raised on, I’m deeply grateful. No spirituality is perfect, but what I have been given through our rich Christian tradition stands up

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