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Questions Without Answers
091994 American author, Sam Keen, recently published a book entitled, Hymns to an Unknown God. The book is outstanding—not because it is deep, but because it is typical. What Keen,
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A Childhood Friend
When I was a child, I had a friend, a very good one. We were friends the way only 12-year-olds can be. Ours was an amity sealed with all the
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Blessing As Dying To Give Life
We all live with constricted hearts. There is a tightness, an unfreedom, a timidity, a tangle of constrictions, inside of each of us that blocks warmth and intimacy. We try
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Staying in the Church
A recent issue of Sojourners magazine (July, 1994), featured articles by two prominent American Roman Catholics, Rosemary Radford Ruether, a leading feminist, and Richard Rohr, the articulate young Franciscan founder
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Youthful Friendship
When I was a child, I had a friend, a very good one. We were friends the way only twelve year-olds can be. Ours was a amity sealed with all
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Weakness 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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Economics and Justice
The cover story of a recent Time magazine suggests that some of the roots of infidelity lie within our very genes. The evolution of the human species, it contends, depends
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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