• Biblical Anxiety

  The opposite of belief is not non-belief, but anxiety. To not believe, to not have faith, is to be anxious in a particular way. What way? We get a hint

  https://ronrolheiser.com/biblical-anxiety/

• Failure and the Second Half of Life

  “During the second-half of life, success no longer teaches us anything. It still feels good, but we don’t learn from it. Now we learn more from failure.” Richard Rohr says

  https://ronrolheiser.com/failure-and-the-second-half-of-life/

• Binding and Loosing

  Gabriel Marcel once said: “To love someone is to say to that person, you at least will not die!” He’s right. To cherish another person is to give him or

  https://ronrolheiser.com/binding-and-loosing/

• Jesus’ Sensitivity

  Michael Buckley, the American Jesuit, once did a fascinating study of Jesus and Socrates, comparing them in terms of human excellence. The result? In many aspects, Jesus appears to be

  https://ronrolheiser.com/jesus-sensitivity/

• Offering Sanctuary for Sadness

  The church today, at least in the West, it is not a very happy place. Gone are the wonder and the joy of being young, the innocent laughter that so

  https://ronrolheiser.com/offering-sanctuary-for-sadness/

• Beauty as God’s Language

  In the movie, The English Patient, there’s a wonderful scene, stunning in its lesson: A number of people from various countries are thrown together by circumstance in an abandoned villa

  https://ronrolheiser.com/beauty-as-gods-language/

• The Da Vinci Code

  Most of us, I suspect, are familiar with Dan Brown’s runaway bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. Here’s the storyline: Looking at Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper, Brown

  https://ronrolheiser.com/the-da-vinci-code/

• Struggling with Possessiveness

  The award-winning Broadway play, Children of a Lesser God, tells an interesting story of how love can go wrong, even when it seems like it’s going right. The story focuses

  https://ronrolheiser.com/struggling-with-possessiveness/

• Mourning our Virginity

  In the Jewish Scriptures there’s a story that’s unique both in its capacity to shock and to fascinate. A king, Jepthah, is at war and things are going badly. Praying

  https://ronrolheiser.com/mourning-our-virginity/

• Conceiving of God – Metaphor and Reality

  Our generation struggles with believing in God, not that this, as Reginald Bibby states, puts God in trouble. God isn’t in trouble because people stop believing or going to church.

  https://ronrolheiser.com/conceiving-of-god-metaphor-and-reality/