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Some Christian Koans
Zen masters, when they teach meditation, occasionally give their pupils something they call a “Koan”. A koan is a puzzle which, prior to long hours of meditation, appears ridiculous, an
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Dark Memory
Inside each of us, beyond what we can name, we have a dark memory of having once been touched and caressed by hands far gentler than our own. That caress
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On God’s Gender
100997 The issue of God’s gender is not one that can be trivialized and seen simply as something arising from feminist ideological concern. “It is important for women that God
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Chastity: Not Our Virtue
Sublimation, waiting, and chastity, these are not the virtues of our time. American educator, Allan Bloom, in his controversial book, The Closing of the American Mind, suggests that lack of
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Remembering Mother Teresa
When I was in graduate school, an American feminist once shocked our class with the following comment: “There are three women who really irritate me: Mary, the Mother of Jesus;
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Balancing Action And Contemplation
It is never easy to find the balance between being and doing, prayer and work, contemplation and action, interiority and external involvement, soul craft and statecraft, mysticism and politics, piety
https://ronrolheiser.com/balancing-action-and-contemplation/
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The Death of a Princess
Few events in recent memory have so emotionally caught the world, as has the death of Princess Diana. I was in Asia at the time and, even there, despite vast
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The Way Of Trust
William Stringfellow was once addressing a group of social justice advocates on a day when they were particularly discouraged because a key project, to which they had given considerable time
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Prophetic Balance
A couple of years ago, while serving on a board seeking to hire a fulltime social justice director, we were discerning the pros and cons of hiring a particular person
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The Good Samaritan
Who is my neighbour? What does it mean to be neighbour to one another? Jesus once answered this by telling us the parable of the Good Samaritan. In essence, as