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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
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God’s Resurrecting Power as Ultimate Truth
As children we believe in fairy tales and nurse the naive idea that there is somewhere a divine magic which can, and will in the end, swish away all evil,
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The Cross as Revealing Christ’s Descent into Hell
There’s a curious line in our creed which says that, immediately following his death, Jesus “descended into hell”. What, possibly, can that mean? Within the popular Christian mindset we have
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The Cross as Revealing God’s Presence in the Poor
Several years ago, in Canada’s prairies, not far from where I was born and raised, a man named Robert Latimer killed his severely-handicapped daughter, Tracy. He put her into the
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The Cross as Revealing the True Cost of Love
One of the best-selling books in England at present is a novel by Tony Parson, Man and Boy. In it, Parson reflects upon some of the strengths and weaknesses of
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The Cross as Revealing the Inner Life of God
There’s a particularly poignant line in the account of Jesus’ death which says that, when he died, “the veil in the sanctuary was torn from top to bottom.” I remember,
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