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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
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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