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Our Misconceptions about Suicide
Margaret Atwood once wrote that sometimes things need to be said, and said, and said, until they don’t need to be said any more. Each year I write a column
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Our Struggle with Envy
Why do we struggle with the things we struggle with? What explains us to ourselves? The Bible begins with a series of stories that try to give reasons for the
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Reading the Signs of the Times
There’s a story told about Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet, who used to go each Saturday morning and stand in lines outside a prison in St. Petersburg where she, along
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Our Generations’ Particular Task
We live in curious religious times. A spiritual renaissance of sorts is happening in the Western world, even as church attendance is in steep decline and less and less of
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Against an Eternal Horizon
We understand our lives best when we see them against the horizon of the infinite. Nowhere is this more important than in the belief that there is a life beyond
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Moving Beyond Hurt
Something important, I believe, can be learned from our reaction to capital punishment. For a good number of people, capital punishment is hailed as something that is needed to help
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From Asking to be Carried to Helping Carry
An icon is a holy picture, an image showing something of the divine. Perhaps the best icon to depict adulthood is a picture of a mother or a father carrying
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Falling Asleep out of Sorrow
“And they were asleep out of sorrow.” St. Luke uses those words to tell us why the disciples fell asleep during Jesus’ agony in the Garden. They fell asleep, he
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Reflection on Vocations
Shortly after he entered the Trappists, Thomas Merton wrote up the story of his conversion and journey to a monastery in a book, Seven- Story Mountain. It became a best-seller
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Faith’s Darkness
Why does God stay hidden? Why doesn’t’ God reveal himself so concretely and physically that no one could doubt his existence? I like Karl Rahner’s perspective on this. God isn’t