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Christ’s Face in Today’s Priesthood
The incarnation should never be confused with Disneyland. In the incarnation God enters into actual humanity – pain, mess, ambiguity, misunderstanding, crucifixion. There’s some purity there, on God’s side; but,
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Re-Imaging Jesus
My teenage years were a time of considerable loneliness. I remember myself only too well as a teen, driven by restlessness, haunted by unspoken dreams, full of youthful grandiosity, unsure
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The Tyranny of Program
During my graduate studies in Louvain, I had the good fortune of having Cristianne Brusselmanns as a professor. Many will recognize that name and recognize as well the pivotal role
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A Spirituality of Parenting
Christian theology has generally been weak in its treatise on marriage. Somehow the earthiness of the incarnation, so evident elsewhere, has been slow to spill over into our thinking about
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A Not-so-subtle Return to the Survival of the Fittest
In Time Magazine there’s a column called Numbers. It’s purpose is to startle you by throwing out curious statistics that you could never have imagined. Reading these, I often find
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Where the Cross is Forever Erected
Something inside us, a defective gene in the moral DNA of the planet perhaps, must account for the fact that we are forever crucifying what’s gentle, innocent, and guileless. Nature
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Suicide – Some Misconceptions
It’s always painful when someone close to us dies, but the pain is compounded considerably when the cause of death is suicide. Suicide doesn’t just leave us with a sense
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Amazement as Blocking Compassion
Some years ago, when I was still a professor of theology, I received a phone call from one of the local parish priests, complaining about the unsettling effect that some
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Following Jesus – Be ready for some Surprises
Following Jesus is not without its surprises. It’s best to be forewarned. Here’s fair warning: Soren Kierkegaard once said that what Jesus wants is followers not admirers. He’s right. To
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Giving up Your Gun
In a rather remarkable series of autobiographical essays, the late Andre Dubus writes about his struggle to give up his gun. For most of his adult life, he had carried