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Moving Beyond Our Little Rule
Among the desert fathers one finds this story: “Abbot Lot went to see Abbot Joseph and said: `Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my
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Giving up our need to be right
Jesus left us the Eucharist as the source of our unity. Sadly, often, it’s the cause of our division, both among Christian denominations and within them. We tend to do
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Ten Tensions to Carry
The thought of some of the greatest and most influential persons in history seems, at times, riddled with inconsistencies. Jesus, Augustine, Socrates, Aristotle, among others, appear at times to contradicting
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From the House of Fear to the House of Love
Henri Nouwen, in his writings, frequently asked this question: “How can we live inside a world marked by fear, hatred, and violence and not be destroyed by it?” At a
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God’s Gender
God is ineffable. What this means is that everything we imagine, think, or say about God is, because of the very nature of God, highly inadequate, poor theology at best.
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Where Faith Resides
Daniel Berrigan was once asked: “Where does your faith reside, where’s its real seat?” His answer is wonderful, both in colour and insight: “Your faith is rarely where your head
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On Envying the Amoral
It’s hard not to envy the amoral, especially if you’re dutifully trying to be faithful to God, commitments, family, church, and the commandments. Nikos Kazantzakis used to say that virtue
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A Rich Tradition of the Heart
There has probably never been a time in the church, certainly not in recent centuries, where we have had as healthy a theology as we have today. The past forty
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On Hearing the Voice that Soothes
Inside each of us there is a deep, congenital restlessness. We are not restful beings who sometimes get restless, but restless beings who occasionally experience rest. Karl Rahner, I believe,
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The Gaze of Sheer Admiration
The older I get the more convinced I am that spiritual maturity lies in the simple capacity to admire – to admire beauty, admire talent, and admire youth, without trying