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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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The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Few things warm the heart as does the myth of redemptive violence. This myth, very different than that taught us by Jesus, lies in the root of the Western soul.
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Choosing Against Happiness
Some years ago, counseling a young nun who was trying to make sense of her struggle with religious life, I learned something about religious ambivalence. Her life embodied it. On