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The Family As A School Of Charity
(3rd in a 6-part series on family) Many classical spiritual writers used to espouse this. What does it mean to say that families are schools of charity? As a young
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The Family as Church and Religious Community
“God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God and God abides in him or her.” If that is true, and it is, then we can say the
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The Deconstruction of the Family
(First in a six-part series on family) The family today is a kingdom under seige. It is nearly impossible to exaggerate the importance of this fact. Many forces within our
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Bill Clinton – A Baby-Boomer Parable
A couple of years ago, out of a job and looking for work, one of my nephews was bouncing from one family member to the next, accepting whatever free room
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Waiting
In her recent novel, The Underpainter, Jane Urquhard offers some thoughts on waiting. Her main character, a brilliant artist whose capacity to live and relate healthily does not parallel
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Divine Providence
Karl Rahner once said that one of the secrets to faith is to always see your life against an infinite horizon. My parents, and many of their generation, had their
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Second Naivete
A spirited debate rages between liberals and conservatives today regarding what direction we should be moving in, both in terms of the world and the church. Both agree that we
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Truth Is Found In Paradox
Niels Bohr, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, once suggested that wisdom and science operate by different rules: “The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of
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Chastity’s Challenge
In her marvelous little book, Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard describes how she one learned a fundamental lesson about life simply by watching a moth emerge from its cocoon. She
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A Child is Born
“A child is born to us.” Why a child? Why would God choose to come into this world as a baby? Why not as some superman or superwoman? Why not