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A Subtler Kind of Poverty
There are different ways of being excluded in life. Earlier this year, one of my older brothers died. By every indication he had lived an exemplary life, one lived mainly
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Our Lifestyle and Our Over-Strained Planet
In a book, The Book of Hope, which he co-authored with Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams makes this statement: Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake evolution ever
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Our Deepest Loneliness
Harvard psychologist Robert Coles, in describing the French mystic Simone Weil, once suggested that what she really suffered from and what motivated her life was her moral loneliness. What is
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Surrendering to Love
Perhaps all of Jesus’ invitations to us can be summarized in one word, surrender. We need to surrender to love. But why is that difficult? Shouldn’t it be the most
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A Single Line Says it All!
You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. No single line, outside of scripture, has ever spoken to me as powerfully,
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Hypocrisy’s Two Faces
The subtlety of hypocrisy! How easy it is not to see our own inconsistencies, even as we so clearly see the faults of others. Are we willfully blind, or is
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Divine Permission for Human Fatigue
Someone once asked Therese of Lisieux if it was wrong to fall asleep while in prayer. Her answer: Absolutely not. A little child is equally pleasing to her parents, awake
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Giving Up on Fear
A friend of mine shares this story. He was an only child. When he was in his late twenties, still single, building a successful career and living in the same
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Unfinished Relationships
A colleague of mine, a clinical therapist, shares this story: A woman came to him in considerable distress. Her husband had recently died of a heart attack. His death had
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What Will Heaven Be Like?
Andrew Greeley once suggested that we might profitably meditate on the following vision of heaven: The condition of physical ecstasy and emotional satisfaction which results from sexual intercourse between two