• The Earthiness of Christmas

  Christmas means many things, but, at its heart, lies the concept of the incarnation, namely, the idea that God takes on human flesh, a human body, becomes physical. At Christmas,

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• Faith Means that God is With Us

  If Christ was born into the world to redeem it, why doesn’t our world look more redeemed? Why is our world still full of loneliness, anxiety, betrayals, sickness, poverty, violence,

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• Jesus’ Dysfunctional Family Tree

  The full story of how Jesus Christ came to be born includes elements that we do not easily imagine when we sing our Christmas hymns. Jesus’ family tree and blood-line

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• Naming our Restlessness

  “A symptom suffers most when it doesn’t knows where it belongs.” James Hillman wrote that and I learned what it means when I was 17 years old. At that tender

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• Advent Hope

  Henri Nouwen was once asked: “Are you an optimist?” His reply: “No, not naturally, but that isn’t important. I live in hope, not optimism.” Teilhard de Chardin once said the

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• Finding our Loved Ones After Their Deaths

  As Christians, we believe in the “communion of saints”. We believe that those who have died are not only still alive but that they are, as well, still in a

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• Songs of Innocence and Experience

  There’s a wonderful little book of essays by Christopher de Vinck entitled, Songs of Innocence and Experience. It radiates what its title suggests, both innocence and experience, a rare combination.

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• Unspeakable Loneliness

  When Kim Campbell was Prime Minister of Canada she gave a very candid interview to MACLEAN’S magazine within which she spoke of the ups and downs of being a public

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• Living with our own Complexities

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty, the founder of Madonna House, once gave a wonderfully insightful interview. A renowned and respected spiritual figure, she acknowledged that her path wasn’t easy. Why? Because,

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• Carrying Tension

  One of the things we’re asked to do as Christians is to help “take away the sins of the world” as Jesus did. How? Jesus “took away the sins of

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