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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
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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
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The Struggle for Sincerity
We live with two great desires. Beyond our desire for intimacy we also want sincerity. But, like intimacy, this too is rather elusive. It’s not easy to be sincere. I
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Providence and the Conspiracy of Accidents
Some years ago, in a class in religious experience, a woman shared this story: She had been raised in a religious home and had been a regular church-goer until her
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In Our Full Humanity
Several years ago, in church, I witnessed this incident: A young boy, perhaps six or seven years old, was growing restless and fidgety. Finally in a voice loud enough to
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Conflicting Voices
We are drowning in a sea of voices. Superficially, we see this in advertising. Everywhere around us, billboards, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, the internet, and the fashion industry, hold out
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A Spirituality of the Ascension
The Ascension throws some important light on the mystery of love and intimacy. What’s the Ascension? It’s an event inside of the life of Jesus and the early church, a
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The Noonday Devil
When the Desert fathers first formulated a list of what they considered “deadly sins”, they included the sin of sadness. It wasn’t until the 17th century that it was dropped