• Naming the Present Moment – Some Metaphors to Digest

  Not everything can be fixed or cured, but it should be named properly. Richard Rohr said that. James Hillman suggests something similar when he wrote that a symptom suffers most

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• Love, Not Excuses, Moves Things Forward

  The excusable doesn’t need to be excused and the inexcusable cannot be excused. Michael Buckley wrote those words commenting on Peter’s triple betrayal of Jesus. Here’s the context. Peter had

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• Spirituality – A Place Where All Believers Can Come Together

  Where can all of us believers come together beyond the divisions created by history, dogma, denomination, and religion? Where is there a place all people of sincere heart can find

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• Managing an Ascension

  A friend of mine, somewhat cynical about the church, recently remarked: “What the institutional church today is trying to do is to put its best face on the fact that

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• Fear of Missing Out

  It’s hard for a child to have to go to bed in the middle of an evening when the rest of the family is still celebrating. Nobody wants to go

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• Then God Created Light Again

  It doesn’t matter whether you picture the origin of time the way science does, as beginning with the Big Bang, or whether you take the biblical account of the origins

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• Straining To Hear the Voice of Good Friday

  They shall look upon the one whom they have pierced!  A phrase that names the voice that’s left behind on Good Friday. In 1981, an anonymous young girl was brutally

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• The Secret Hidden from the Amoral

  According to the Bible, there’s a secret that’s hidden from the amoral, known only by the virtuous. The Book of Wisdom tells us that when we are not virtuous we

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• The Therapy of a Public Life

  Forty years ago, Philip Rieff wrote a book entitled The Triumph of the Therapeutic. In essence, he argued that today in the Western world so many people need psychological therapy

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• When Did We Lose Basic Respect for Each Other?

  When did we lose it? When did we lose that deeply-engrained, forever-sanctioned sense that however much we might disagree with each other or even dislike each other, we still need

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