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Listening To Your Widows
A few years ago, I had a friend who, like Nicodemus with Jesus, would come to me at night. This scene though wasn’t quite as pastoral as the biblical one.
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The Worst Kind Of Poverty
In a recent novel, Love, Again, Doris Lessing, with her usual genius, paints a picture of the soul of a late middle-aged woman, Sarah Durham, as she, Sarah, spends a
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Dreaming With Others
What you dream alone remains a dream, what you dream with others can become a reality. Edward Schillebeeckx coined this phrase as a way of expressing the important truth that
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Secrets of the Kingdom
He was a disappointment to his dad, that’s for sure. After all, his dad had spent three hundred dollars, just for his uniform. Then there were other expenses: Fees to
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Beyond Liberal And Conservative
More and more, it is becoming clear that we need to move beyond the categories of liberal and conservative. Simply put, both have shown themselves to be dysfunctional in terms
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Fidelity Not Success
Shortly after the Gulf War in 1991, I heard a radio interview with Jim Wallis, the founder of “Sojourners”. Wallis had had some reservations about how the USA resolved that
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The Prayer of a College Student
Lord, God, I’m praying from my heart, not from my knees, with unspoken words, not with formulas. Hear this prayer that my parents can never know of. You read the
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A Lord’s Prayer For Justice
In the world’s schema of things, survival of the fittest is the rule. In God’s schema, survival of the weakest is the rule. God always stands on the side of
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Faults After Initial Conversion
Many of the classical spiritual treatises have a curious layout. They begin with a challenge, telling us how to live our lives in a better way. Then, usually already in
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Flowers And The Rich Young Man
When he was fifty years old, William Butler Yeats penned this reflection on aging: My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London