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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
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A Spirituality of Non-Hurrying
“Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.” Thoreau wrote that and it’s not meant as something trivial. We hurry too much, pure
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On Becoming Post-Liberal
We’re a people losing heart. There’s a loss of heart for almost everything: for fidelity in relationships, as less and less people find within themselves the resiliency needed to live
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Setting our Ecclesial Gauges
Karl Rahner once cautioned that we should never assume that everyone alive at the same time belongs to the same generation. Nowhere is this more true than in church circles
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Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ
When John Shea wrote his book on Jesus, he began with an apology, asking whether yet another book on Christology was really needed. I share that sentiment as I weigh
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Waiting for the Resurrection
“When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they seem
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The Agony in the Garden – The Place of Transformation
“There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.” That cryptic phrase from Leo Tolstoy can serve as a key
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The Agony in the Garden – The Place to Ready Ourselves for Ordeals
Luke’s account of Gethsemane says this of Jesus:”And being in a certain agony (AGONIA), he prayed more earnestly.” This word, AGONIA, doesn’t just describe the intensity of Jesus’ suffering, but
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The Agony in the Garden – A Place of Prayer
Poet Theodore Roetke once wrote: “In a dark time, the edge is what we have.” In a dark time we also have prayer. In the Garden of Gethsemane, as he
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