• 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

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• The Importance of Mellowness of Heart

  In the summer of 1985, I attended a church conference that brought together persons from every continent on earth. In the group within which I was the recording secretary, there

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• Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us

  When one reads Helen Prejean’s, Dead Man Walking, what is often lost in the sheer power of the story is what she recounts at the very end of the book

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• Resurrection and the Voice of Good Friday

   040298 Easter is about many things. We celebrate God’s ultimate power to redeem death, sin, and injustice, but we also celebrate the now-glorified voices and wounds of the ones who

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• Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Fear of the Lord

  St. John of the Cross once proposed this axiom” “Learn to understand more by not understanding than by understanding.” A curious statement, though obviously a profound one. What does he

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• Gifts of The Holy Spirit – Piety

   031998 Ernst Kasemann once commented that the problem with the world is that the liberals aren’t pious and the pious aren’t liberal. A wise comment, one that puts some perspective

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• Gifts of the Spirit: Fortitude

  Many of us are familiar with the story Dead Man Walking. It’s about a Catholic nun, Helen Prejean, who is working among prisoners on death row, helping prepare them for

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• The Gift of Counsel

  There is a striking parallel in the bible between two stories. In each, an innocent woman, threatened by crowd, is saved because one person intervenes, gives counsel, and alters things.

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• The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

  The American poet, Robert Frost, once wrote that there is a congenital something in us that hates a wall. Well, there is also something, just as non-eradicable, that loves a

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