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Taking God Seriously
Several years ago, I attended the funeral of a young man who had been killed in a traffic accident. From nearly every point of view he died in less tha
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The Insufficiency of Everything Attainable
“In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we come to understand that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.” Karl Rahner wrote those words and not to
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Thinking Of Ourselves As Victims
There is a virus sweeping the Western world and infecting most of us with a new disease. It comes complete with a high fever. The sickness? The debility and self-focus
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Bound to Christ
Gabriel Marcel once said: “To love someone is to say, you at least will never die.” That might sound like romantic wishful thinking, but, in Christian faith, we believe that
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Inferiority Builds The Soul
James Hillman, who is perhaps America’s most fertile thinker, suggests that it is our inferiorities that build up our souls. His view is that it is not our strengths that
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Beyond Peter Pan and Tinkerbell
It is difficult to grow up, to become an adult. Too much around us and inside us invites us rather to remain the little boy, the little girl – the
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Sex and Soul
Recently I was talking with a young woman who was trying to convince me that I, and the church, have a distorted view about sex. “You make it such a
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Our Need to Kneel
“I do not want to belong to a religion which cannot kneel. I do not want to live in a world where there is No One to adore. It is
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Weeping With A Wall-Eyed Pike
Many of you may have heard this story before. I’ve heard it told by James Dobson, by Richard Rohr, and a few others. But it merits repeating: Some years ago
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Liturgical Tips From The Pew
I am not a liturgist. Hence this critique comes more from instinct, and frustrations with many of the liturgies I attend, than it comes from theological principle. Be that as