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Christ As Wounded
There is a story told, a legend perhaps, about St. Theresa of Avila. One day the devil appeared to her, disguised as Christ. Theresa wasn’t fooled for even a second.
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Suicide – Love Through Locked Doors
About one year ago, I wrote a column on suicide. Among other things, I suggested there that suicide is the most misunderstood of all deaths. Given the positive response to
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Our Mystical Centre
Where does our faith lie? What’s its seat? Where does it take its ultimate root? Bernard Lonergan once suggested that faith is God’s brand on us. God has seared our
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The Transforming Power of Beauty
Few things in this life have the raw power of beauty. What’s beautiful stuns us, holds us, draws us to itself, awakens us, and transforms us. Beauty enchants. Drawn by
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Turning the Other Cheek
One of the best-known but most-ignored lines in scripture is Jesus’ challenge to “turn the other cheek”. What did he mean by it? First off, the text needs a careful
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Moral Discourse
Imagine you are an artist in your workshop, working on a mosaic artefact. Your four year-old daughter is watching with fascination as you glue tiny bits of pretty glass to
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Choosing A Different Kind Of Heaven
In a recent novel, Anita Brookner tells the story of a seventy-something widow named Dorothea May. Dorothea lives by herself in a comfortable flat in London. Materially she wants for
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How Jesus Takes Away The Sin Of The World
Jesus is the lamb of God who takes the sin of the world! That formula, expressed in various ways, lies at the centre of what we believe about Jesus. What
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God Sends The Rich Away Empty!
In her recent book, For the Time Being, Annie Dillard, although herself a woman of mature faith, raises a series of hard questions about faith. For example, at one point,
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Celebrating the Jubilee Year
It only happens every thousand years! Millennium clocks around the world are already ticking down to zero time, midnight, December 31, 1999, the end of one millennium and the start