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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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Irritations and the Spiritual Life
Stanley Elkin once suggested that “it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of needle than for an irritated person to enter the kingdom of heaven.” True enough.
https://ronrolheiser.com/irritations-and-the-spiritual-life/
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Substance and Appearance
My old philosophical mentor, Eric Mascall, used to say that, in our time, all the goods are in the store-window and there’s very little under the counter. He was commenting