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The Agony in the Garden – The Place Where You Suffer as a Lover
We tend to misunderstand “the passion of Jesus.” Spontaneously we think of it as the pain of the physical sufferings he endured on the road to his death. Partly that
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The Agony in the Garden – The Special Place of Loneliness
We tend to misunderstand “the passion of Jesus”. Spontaneously we think of it as the pain of the physical sufferings he endured on the road to his death. Partly that
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Romantic Imagination with Religion
There are many reasons why our churches are greying and emptying. Conservatives attribute it to the intoxicating power of secularity, to a pampered culture that has lost its sense of
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The Law of Karma
Faith and instinct both give us a sense of what Hindus and Buddhists call the law of karma. Simply put, we have a gut-feeling that our actions, good and bad,
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Compassion and Truth
Back when I was still teaching full-time, I was, for a period of time, the Acting Dean at a Theological College. In that role, I received one day a phone
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Beyond Labels
Several years ago, while giving a workshop in England, I was approached during a health-break by a couple of participants who asked me: “What are you? We’ve been trying to
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Facing Otherness and Differences
David Tracy, the eminent intellectual, submits that perhaps the biggest challenge confronting us today is that of facing our differences, of accepting, truly accepting, otherness. This challenge confronts us at
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Interruptions: Our Real Work
Henri Nouwen once commented that he used to be resentful whenever he was interrupted in his work until he realized that, often times, interruptions were his real work. There’s a
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On Not Letting the Sky Wilt
Words are really all we have to fend off the chaos. They can’t make or remake reality, but they can give us a vision with which to lift ourselves out
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Mary as a Model of Faith
“Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!” Picture the scene: Jesus has just impressed a crowd and a woman, probably a mother, shouts out: