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Happiness and Paradox
If you want to make yourself unhappy real quickly, ask yourself this set of questions: Am I happy? Does anyone really love me? Does anyone really understand me truly for
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Tensions within Spirituality
Healthy spirituality has always been a question of putting a number of things into a delicate balance and then walking a tightrope so as not to fall off either side.
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Promise Keepers
It draws very different reactions. Liberals see it as a dangerous move by the religious right. The National Organization for Women in the U.S. calls it “the greatest danger to
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Losing a Loved One to Suicide
There is perhaps nothing more painful in the world than for us to lose a loved one to suicide. A couple of months ago, I received a letter from a
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Church as Larry’s Party
Carol Shields ends her recent novel, Larry’s Party, with a scene depicting a dinner party. Larry, the bungling hero of her story, has invited a motley group of persons to
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A Mature Sexuality
The Greek philosophers used to say that we are fired into life with a madness that comes from the gods and that this energy is the root all love, hate,
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Faith through Mysticism
Karl Rahner once said that the time is fast approaching when one will either be a mystic or an unbeliever. He’s right. None of us can rely much longer on
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Carrying Tension
When I was in graduate school, in class one day the professor was lecturing on sexuality and morality, the issue of masturbation was raised and a student stopped him dead
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Baptism As The Conscriptive Rope
To be baptized into the church is to be a consecrated, displaced person. What is implied here? In John’s Gospel, there is a revealing exchange between Jesus and Peter. Three
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A Report From The Jesters Annual Convention
The best comments overheard at the recent International convention of Court Jesters: *A seven year-old girl, explaining why her daddy, a Ph.D in philosophy could not give medical advice: “He
https://ronrolheiser.com/a-report-from-the-jesters-annual-convention/