• Priestly Prayer – Prayer for the World

  One of the responsibilities of being an adult is that of praying for the world. Like the high priests of old, we need to offer up prayers daily for others.

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• Obstacles to Prayer

  Jan Walgrave once commented that our present culture constitutes a virtual conspiracy against the interior life. He wasn’t suggesting that somewhere there is a deliberate force that is consciously scheming

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• Pray Always – Prayer as Lifting Mind and Heart to God

  One classical definition of prayer defines it this way: “Prayer is lifting mind and heart to God.” That’s a wonderful and accurate description of prayer, the problem is that we

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• A Challenge from our Born-Again and Devotionally-Oriented Siblings

  Twenty years ago, the renowned scripture scholar, Raymond Brown, gave a series of lectures to an ecumenical audience on how the various New Testament writers understood the church that Jesus

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• The Churches and the Social Gospel

  It’s fashionable today to bash the churches, not just in terms of the scandals within them that hit the newspapers, but, more importantly, in terms of making them out to

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• In Defense of Mystery

  Recently I attended a symposium on Interreligious Dialogue. The keynote speakers were all excellent, with a single exception. One speaker suggested that one of the problems with Christianity is that

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• The Loneliness of Leaving Home

  Among the kinds of loneliness that afflict us, there’s one we don’t often recognize and deal with very well, the loneliness of moving on. There’s a loneliness that comes with

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• Pentecost Happened at a Meeting

  If you’re someone who’s at all concerned about community, family, church, justice, education, culture, or civic issues, you will, no doubt, find yourself at a lot of meetings. A colleague

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• Ministering with Authority

  Recently, inside church circles, a debate took place as to whether Therese of Lisieux should be named a “doctor” of the church. Her proponents pointed to her influence within the

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• The Need to Admire

  Several years ago, Roger Rosenblatt, in an essay in TIME magazine, offered this advice to his son who was graduating from high school and heading off to college: “Whatever you

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