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The Cross as Revealing the Non-Violence of Christ
The cross of Christ is like a carefully-cut diamond. Every time you turn it in the light you get a different sparkle. It means so many things and its depths
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Loneliness and the Second Half of Life
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book on loneliness. I was young then, lonely myself, restless like all young people, and still searching for many things. So, despite leaning heavily
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Sexuality and Creativity
A friend of mine recently left the priesthood. He loved being a priest and was a good one. His problem? He was a man who worked with hands and fashioned
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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!