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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
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A Parable of Grace
Piet Fransen wrote many important books, but he will always be most remembered for giving us a wonderful parable that runs something like this: Once upon a time there lived
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Moral Loneliness
In her book, Guidelines for Mystical Prayer, Ruth Burrows makes an interesting comment on Therese of Lisieux. Looking at photographs of her, Burrows points that there is a quality of
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Finding God in Community
Some years ago I attended a symposium on religious experience. A variety of speakers made presentations on how they tried to experience God. One woman, a professor of religious studies,
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Beyond Ideology
Speaking to a group of theologians in Chicago recently, Cardinal Francis George offered this critique: “Liberal Catholicism is inadequate in fostering the joyful self-surrender called for in Christian marriage, in
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The Mystical Body
“I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping
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The Grace in Creativity
In his recent novel, Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje creates a character named Ananda. Ananda’s wife had been brutally murdered in the civil war in Sri Lanka and Ananda is trying
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The McVeigh Execution
In his masterful book, Violence Unveiled, Gil Bailie picks up on a passage from the diaries of Captain Cooke. Cooke had landed on one of the Polynesian Islands and befriended