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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.
https://ronrolheiser.com/songs-of-innocence-and-experience-2/
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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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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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