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Struggling with Our Own Complexity
Catherine de Hueck Doherty, the founder of Madonna House, once gave a particularly insightful interview. A renowned and respected spiritual figure, she acknowledged that her path wasn’t easy, that she
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Our Problems with Faith Today – A Diagnosis and a Prescription
In 2007, Charles Taylor wrote a book entitled, A Secular Age which gave us a clear and comprehensive analysis of the secular age we live in and the implications of
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And Time Started Over
With the resurrection of Jesus, time started over. Simply put, up until Jesus rose from the dead all things that died stayed dead. After Jesus’ resurrection, nothing stays dead anymore.
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And The Temple Veil was Ripped from Top to Bottom
There are many haunting lines in the passion narratives. Who is not stirred in the soul when the passion story is read aloud in church and we come to the
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On Not Being Stingy with God’s Mercy
Shortly after my ordination, doing replacement work in a parish, I found myself in a rectory with a saintly old priest. He was over eighty, nearly blind, but widely sought
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All Lives Matter
Theodore Roethke begins his poem In a Dark Time, with these words: “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” We live in a dark time, one beset with
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Reality’s Immune System
Thomas Moore, the author of Care of the Soul, teaches that our most important spiritual task is to listen to the promptings of our own soul. If listened to in
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Storms We Cannot Weather
In the musical Les Miserables, there’s a particularly haunting song, sung by a dying woman (Fantine) who has been crushed by virtually every unfairness life can deal a person. Abandoned by her
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The Meaning of Jesus’ Suffering
I heard this story from a renowned theologian who prefers I don’t use his name in sharing this, though the story speaks well of his theology. He was giving a
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Finding our Vocation
Many of us are familiar with a famous line from C.S. Lewis who, when writing about his conversion to Christianity, shared that he was “the most reluctant convert in the