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Transparency and Community
The key to remaining within a marriage, a family, a friendship, a neighbourhood, a church, or a religious community, is not so much communication as it is transparency. Nothing destroys
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A Christian Attitude Towards the World
It is hard to believe that God still loves this world and smiles upon it as does a mother upon her child. Our spontaneous impulse is rather to protest, condemn,
https://ronrolheiser.com/a-christian-attitude-towards-the-world/
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Some Global Perspectives
What is the crucial agenda facing the church today? What issues should the church be addressing? The answer depends a lot upon one’s perspective. Presently I am attending a General
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One Spirit – One Source of All
Someone once said that the law of gravity and the law of love ultimately have the same source and are both driven by the same spirit, the Holy Spirit. Would
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Our Interior Codes
During the past few years, a trio of American authors, James Hillman, Michael Meade, and Thomas Moore, have given us a number of books which are as brilliant as they
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Ideology makes for Strange Judgments
Jim Wallis once coined this phrase: ” The religious right thinks that to be religious you have to be extremist and fundamentalist … and the religious left agrees!” Ideology makes for
https://ronrolheiser.com/ideology-makes-for-strange-judgments/
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The Poverty and Soul of Lavinia Andrews
082298 In her brilliant, haunting book, Random Passage, Bernice Morgan describes the physical and psychological trials of the first families that journeyed from England to Newfoundland to settle at Cape
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-poverty-and-soul-of-lavinia-andrews/
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Self-Image and the Two Halves of Life
Several years ago, I preached a homily on the importance of taking our self-image from who we are rather than from what we do. The Gospel passage for that Sunday
https://ronrolheiser.com/self-image-and-the-two-halves-of-life/
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Why Church Attendance is Dropping
Recently I was listening to a radio talk-in show that was debating the question: ‘‘why are less and less people going to church?” The question sparked a lively response and
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Monks Have Secrets Worth Knowing
Daniel Berrigan, no stranger to confederate sources of wisdom, once suggested that monks have secrets worth knowing. This I learned, first-hand , recently when I spent ten days on retreat