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The Mystical Imagination
In her book, Sacred Heart, Gateway to God, Wendy Wright recounts her faith journey. She was a struggling Hollywood actress, more of an agnostic than a believer, when, while killing
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The Struggle To Understand Suicide
Every year I write a column on suicide because, among all forms of death, it’s still the one we struggle with the most. How can suicide happen? What makes a
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The Truth Sets Us Free
A friend of mine, an alcoholic in recovery, is fond of saying: “Alcoholism is only 10% about a chemical, and 90% about dishonesty. You can drink, as long as you
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Second Birth
Nothing is more evident than the existence of God – and nothing is more obscure. God is everywhere and yet it’s virtually impossible to imagine how God exists. Why? If
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What The Next Hundred Years Will Bring
In his new book, God’s Politics, Jim Wallis predicts 50 things that will happen during this next century. Among these, he foresees the following: 1) Faith will be defined much
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Purity
In the early 1960’s, Michel Quoist wrote a book entitled, Prayers, which became immensely popular. The book combined rare depth with a language bordering on poetry. One of the prayers
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Meeting God Without Fear
What would you feel if God suddenly walked into a room? Fear? Shame? Joy? Apprehension? Panic? A desire to hide? Relief when God finally left? Indeed, how would we even
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Searching for a New Maturity
“Be in the world, but not of the world!” Great advice, but not easy to follow. We struggle with this tension. On the one side, the temptation is to keep
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Supporting Family Values
The issue of “family values” has long divided liberals and conservatives. It constitutes an ideological fault-line, determining what newspapers we read, what television programs we watch, what circles we socialize
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The Jesus Code – Unravelling The Secret
We all love to unearth hidden things, to crack some puzzle or code. We need only to look at the hoopla surrounding The Da Vinci Code to see how true
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