• Mourning our Inconsummation

  There’s a story in the Jewish scriptures that is both fascinating and shocking in its earthiness. A king named Jepthah is at war and things are going badly. In desperation

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• The Empathetic Gaze of God

  Recently I was visiting a family who have a four year-old daughter. Some of her friends were over at the house playing with her and her siblings. There were about

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• Coping with the Imago Dei

  There’s been an interesting phenomenon in literature these past few years. Looking at non-fiction books, we see a number of very popular, best-sellers, that draw their titles and substance from

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• Commandments for the Long Haul

  Daniel Berrigan once wrote a wonderful little book entitled, “Ten Commandments for the Long Haul”. It was intended as spiritual sustenance, sustaining food, for those who walk the lonely, long

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• Giving Birth to God

  I did my doctoral thesis on the classical, philosophical proofs for the existence of God. The concept had always intrigued me: “Can you prove that God exists?” After researching the

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• Bridging the Unbridgeable Gap

  How can the divine speak to us? How can God, who is infinitely beyond, touch us with divine tenderness in a way that we can understand? Christmas, the birth of

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• Haunting Each Other’s Dreams

  In his Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road, Nigerian writer, Ben Okri, describes a mother chiding her overly-restless, ten year-old, son for haunting her dreams: “Stay out of my dreams!

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• Purgatory Revisited

  Several weeks ago I wrote a column in which I mentioned “purgatory”. Here’s what I said: “Purgatory is not a geography, a place distinct from heaven, but is the pain

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• The Cosmic Christ

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was once called to Rome and asked to clarify certain issues in regards to his teachings. At one point, he was asked: “What are you trying

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• Wrestling with God

  Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of Zorba, the Greek, was an extraordinarily complex man, especially religiously. An artist, a searcher, strongly independent, yet a man with a mystical bent, he often

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