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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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Giving our Deaths to our Loved Ones
The poet, Wendell Berry, once wrote: “I almost understand, I almost recognize as a friend the great impertinence of beauty that comes even to the dying, even to the fallen,
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Praying for the Dead
Recently I received a letter from a woman asking me to explain the Christian teaching about praying for the dead. Her son had been killed in an accident and she