• Waiting for Christmas to Come

  Everything about the season of advent speaks of desire and waiting. Our advent songs are nothing but cries really, begging for someone or something to come and ease our burdens,

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• The Moral And Spiritual Gain Within Our Generation

  Is the world getting better or worse? Are we making moral and spiritual progress on this planet or are we sliding ever further into a moral and spiritual abyss? This

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• The Rejected One As Cornerstone

  “There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in. ” Whatever else Leonard Cohen had in mind when he coined that phrase, it says something about how

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• Life Versus Wisdom

  Some years ago, I was visiting a Benedictine monastery in Belgium when an episode occurred that still haunts me. What happened? Well, you need to picture a scene to get

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• On Naming The Present Moment

  A couple of years ago, David Tracy, a leading Catholic intellectual, wrote a particularly insightful essay which he entitled, On Naming the Present. In it, he tried to name the

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• Three Conversion Movements

  In her masterful book, Guidelines for Mystical Prayer, Ruth Burrows has a section within which she lists the faults of those who are beyond initial conversion. What are these faults?

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• What Is Religion All About?

  There is a Jewish parable, quite famous, that runs something like this: Once upon a time there was a Rabbi who was old, wise, and very holy. One day he

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• Bill Gates and Albert Camus

  Contrast clarifies vision. To set two things in opposition to each other is to see both more clearly. With that in mind, it is interesting to contrast two views on

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• Facing a New Challenge

  Having a columnist around for a number of years is a little like having a neighbour around for a while. Even if you don’t like him, you can’t help but

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• Our Limited Agnosticism

  William Blake once said that should a fool persist in his folly eventually that folly would turn to wisdom.  The same might be said about the agnosticism of our time.

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