• Colour and Wisdom in God’s Face

  If you were to construct a composite of God’s face, how would you picture this? What features should go into this face? Should God look like Mother Teresa or Alanis

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• A Lonely Place from which to Pray and Speak

  Robert Coles once wrote a fine biographical essay on Simone Weil. In it, he coined a beautiful phrase to describe a quality which made her so extraordinary and which also

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• In Defense of Daily Eucharist

  The long-standing Catholic practice of daily Eucharist is today being questioned: On the one hand, less and less people are going to daily Eucharist and many parishes in fact no

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• The Storm on the Lake

  Several years ago I attended a seminar on religious experience where a woman shared this story: A few years before this incident occurred her life had been rather settled. She

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• Facing up to the Chaos

  Michael Ford, in his biography on Henri Nouwen, tells us how brutally honest Nouwen was emotionally. Sometimes when loneliness, depression, and chaos would threaten to overwhelm him, Nouwen would go

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• The Death of Innocence

  In 1987 an American educator, Allan Bloom, wrote a book entitled, The Closing of the American Mind. Its thesis is contained in its title. The book contends that today, in

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• Celebrating a New Millennium

  Certain occasions test a columnist. How to do justice to an event? What do you say at the turn of a millennium? What do you say to propose a toast

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• The Christmas Symbols

  My fiftieth year has come and gone, but, at Christmas, I’m a child, delighting in the creche, the lights, the carols, the Christmas tree. I’ve always loved Christmas, loved everything

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• Readying Ourselves For Christmas

  John the Baptist tries to prepare the way for Jesus by calling people to repentance: “Repent for the kingdom if heaven is near.” Whatever else that means, it includes the

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• A Theology Of Longing And Desire

  In our longing we intuit the kingdom of God. Our desires and our daydreams are what point us towards heaven. How so? Nearly thirty years ago, Richard Bach wrote a

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