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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
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Struggling with Being Blessed
Rock star, Janis Joplin, was once asked, “What’s it like being a pop idol?” Her answer: “It can be awful sometimes. You have no idea how hard it is to
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Suicide – The Most Misunderstood of All Deaths
Death is always painful, but its pains are compounded considerably if its cause is suicide. When a suicide occurs, we aren’t just left with the loss of a person, we’re
https://ronrolheiser.com/suicide-the-most-misunderstood-of-all-deaths/
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The Mother Tongue
Hans Urs Von Baltasar once wrote: “After a Mother has smiled for a long time at her child, the child will begin to smile back; she has awakened love in
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Helping Create a Symphony of Prayer
Theologians make an important distinction between what they call “devotional” and “liturgical” prayer. “Devotional” prayer, they tell us, is private in nature and is meant to help sustain us personally
https://ronrolheiser.com/helping-create-a-symphony-of-prayer/