• Amazing Grace

  It was William Auden, I think, who wrote that when grace enters a room everyone begins to dance. Would this were so! More often the opposite happens, grace enters a

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• Faults of the Parents in the Children

  A couple of years ago, I was at the home of some friends for a dinner. During the meal, their kids, all quite young, had been rather loud, cranky, self-absorbed,

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• Missionaries to Secularity

  This past summer, the religious community I belong to, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, sponsored a symposium, “Missionaries to Secularity”, at St. Paul University, Ottawa. We’re a missionary order who

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• The Language of Soul

  Kathleen Norris’ recent book, AMAZING GRACE, is subtitled, “A Vocabulary of Faith”. What’s implied here is that Christian faith, timeless in content, needs to struggle to articulate itself meaningfully today.

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• The Tale of Two Flights

  A couple of summers ago I booked an airline ticket from Seattle to London, a nine-hour flight. I fly enough to know that, to get a good seat in the

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• The Illusion of our own Innocence

  One of the great tragedies in all literature is the biblical story of Saul. Saul makes Hamlet look like a Disney-character. Hamlet, at least, had good reasons for the disasters

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• Praying the Psalms

  “God behaves in the psalms in ways he is not allowed to behave in systemic theology.” That quip comes from Sebastian Moore and should be highlighted at a time when

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• Energy Meets Wisdom

  World Youth Days, 2002, have just ended and, from every appearance, were a wonderful success. Hundreds of thousands of young people descended on Toronto for a week and, under the

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• Three Things for Conservatives to Ponder

  Last week’s column suggested three areas for liberal self-scrutiny. It’s time for the flip-side. What three areas might conservatives ponder? 1) Jesus’ admonition that truth alone is not enough. For

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• Three Things for Liberals to Ponder

  Things rarely are simple. Nothing, save God, comes without a shadow. That’s good to keep in mind when we assess the pros and cons of liberals and conservatives. Each brings

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