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Tales Of Two Earthy Saints
I rarely look to biographies of the rich and famous for my inspiration. Normally this is hagiography of the worst kind, the culture’s version of the lives of the saints.
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A String Of Empty Tombs
Spring and Easter, a conspiracy between nature and religion, creation and redemption, to make newness, to thaw things out, to rejuvenate and re-virginize, to make sunshine, to warm frozen places,
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Love Through Locked Doors
Several years ago, a family I know well lost a daughter through suicide. She was in her late 20s and had become dangerously depressed. An initial attempt at suicide failed.
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Whose Kingdom, Lord?
Every so often, a book comes along that is truly moral. It challenges so deeply our moral conceptions that we end up in a certain darkness, punched to a new
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Despair And Resurrection
The resurrection challenges our right to despair. Despair is something we misunderstand, just as we misunderstand resurrection. Both are not experiences which are extraordinary, at the end of life. Resurrection
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Spirituality An Erotic Urge
In the past several years I have been more than a little hurt when, on more than a few occasions, friends of mine would leave the priesthood, the convent or
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Experience May Lead To Hell
The holy spirit of our age is spelled Experience and the only unforgivable sin is to be naïve. Like no other persons, before us, we are given a chance to