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Living With Fear and Timidity
The movie, A River Runs Through It, opens with a young man telling us about his brother, whom he describes as “a beautiful person, who was never afraid of anything!”
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Speaking our Truth from a Deeper Place
“Don’t be a liberal or a conservative, but a woman or man of faith!” Jim Wallis coined that phrase and we would all be more charitable and Christian if we
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Our Struggle For Community
We all ache for community and tend to be dissatisfied with what we’re actually experiencing in our lives. Everywhere, it seems, people are looking for community and complaining that their
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Life’s Key Question
Several years ago, at retreat, an elderly monk shared with me about the ups and downs of 50 years of monastic life. At the end of this he said to
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Our Inability to Cast Out Demons
The older I get, the more I realize that there is a huge difference between speaking effectively, perhaps even brilliantly, and actually changing anybody’s life. It’s one thing to impress
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Proofs for the Existence of God
Can you prove that God exists? Some of the greatest philosophers believed that it can be done. Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibnitz, Spinoza, Hartshorne, among others, all tried to do it.
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On Being Jealous of God’s Generousity
“The cock will crow at the breaking of your own ego – there are lots of ways to wake up!” John Shea gave me those words and I understood them
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Acknowledging our own Complexity
As a seminarian, I was introduced to the writings of Thomas Aquinas. I was nineteen years old, young for philosophy, and his abstract language befuddled me for a time. But
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On Carrying Ecclesial Tension
We disagree a lot and are forever frustrated with each other. That’s true in all families, communities, and churches. In this world, there’s no life together without a shadow. Inside
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Moving to a New Job and a new City
Never assume that your life is as interesting to others as it is to yourself. A wise axiom. In the more than twenty years I’ve been writing this column, I
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