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Being Born From Above
In a wonderful series of commentaries on Scripture, John Shea presents a powerful story on what it means to be born again, to be born from above, as Jesus says.
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Receiving our Faith Tradition
Kathleen Norris, commenting on her own faith-journey, makes an interesting comment regarding the ambivalent way in which faith and church have come down to us. Her words: “As its Latin
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A Culture of Amazement
In the mid-1990s, a novel by Robert Waller, The Bridges of Madison County, took America by storm. It was the number-one, best-selling book for an entire year and eventually was
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Anxiety as the Opposite of Faith
The opposite of faith in scripture is not doubt but anxiety. To lack faith is not so much to have theoretical doubts about God’s existence as it is to be
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Real and False Humility
In his inaugural address, Nelson Mandela suggests that false humility hurts us just as much as false pride. His words: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our
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Splitting the Inner Atom
We can never be challenged too strongly with regards to social justice. A key, non-negotiable, component of the gospel is precisely the summons to reach out to the poor, to
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Our Misunderstanding about Suicide
Each year I write an article on suicide because so many people have to live with the pain of losing a loved one in this way. When someone close to
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On Naming The Present Moment
There’s a story told about Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet. During Stalin’s purges, thousands of Russians had been imprisoned and she, along with others, was standing in line outside of
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On Not Committing the Original Sin
Theologian, James Mackey, once shared this story in a classroom: A man he knew was part of a hunting expedition in Africa. His group was camped in a jungle. One
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Praying for Pentecost
Every generation needs to experience pentecost for itself. It needs God’s spirit and it needs it in its own particular way. Indeed scripture assures us that the holy spirit is