• Eucharist as God’s Physical Embrace

  There’s a story told of a young Jewish boy named Mortakai who refused to go to school. When he was six years old, his mother took him to school, but

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• A Prodigal God

  A couple of years ago, Barbara Kingsolver wrote a book entitled Prodigal Summer. It tells the story of young woman who got pregnant during a summer within which everything seemed

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• A Mellow Heart in a Bitter Time

  In her novel, A Good House, Bonnie Burnard tells the story of a relatively happy family. But even happy families have unhappy moments where bitterness chills an otherwise warm house.

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• A Voice That Never Dies

  Easter is about many things. We celebrate God’s power to overcome death, sin, and injustice, but we also celebrate the voices and wounds of the ones who died on Good

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• Jesus’ Last Words

  Just before he dies on the cross, Jesus utters these words: “It is finished!” What’s “finished”? These words can be spoken in different ways: They can be words of defeat

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• Mary Under the Cross

  One of the most popular images in all of scripture (an icon that’s been endlessly painted, sung, put into litanies, written up into poetry, and used to triggered every kind

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• Walking Away Out of Sorrow (5 of 6)

  [Fifth in a six-part Lenten series on Mystical Images] What do we do when we’re depressed? What’s our temptation when a dream is shattered, when we feel betrayed, and when

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• Helping Simon of Cyrene Carry Jesus’ Cross (4 of 6)

  [Fourth in a six-part Lenten Series on Mystical Images] “It seems as though through purely earthly accidents we are made responsible for what is heavenly and divine.” Karl Rahner wrote

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• Betraying Jesus as Peter Did (3 of 6)

  [Third in a six-part Lenten series on “Mystical Images”] Anthropologists tell us that men and women have different congenital flaws. For men, it would seem that the flaw that’s more

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• Sweating Blood in the Garden (2 of 6)

  [Second in a six-part lenten series on “Mystical Images”] “In his anguish he prayed even more earnestly, and his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.” Luke

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