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What Shapes A Soul?
Introspection is not always a bad thing. On occasion, it’s good to reflect on the persons and events that helped shape your soul. This is a form of prayer of
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Needing Someone to Adore
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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Thou Shalt Not Betray!
It has been more than 25 years since Martin Luther King was assassinated and, not infrequently, I recall his funeral. It was not like I was there or anything, I
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Being for the World
Jesus told his followers: “Be in the world, but not of the world.” Lately, as a church, we haven’t fared too badly in doing that. Since Vatican II we have,
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Celestial Marriage Counselling
Robert Moore, a man who understands a considerable amount about the symbols that undergird the way we think, recently commented that the mythic task for our age is that of
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Blocking Pentecost
The church needs a new pentecost and there can be no pentecost unless there is first an ascension. Such are the dynamics of the paschal mystery. Today, in the church,
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Belief in Resurrection
To believe in the resurrection of Jesus is to be comforted, comforted at a level so deep that nothing in life is any longer ultimately a threat. In the resurrection,
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Mourning A Passing
I first heard the name, Christopher Lasch, a dozen years ago when a fellow student gave me a copy of his book, The Culture of Narcissism. Reading it, I was
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Passion and Purity
Someone once said that the church does not understand passion while the world does not understand purity. That might be rather simplistic and a dangerous generalization but, to my mind,
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Waging Peace
Recently a young high school student wrote a letter to the editorial section of our local city paper. In her youthful idealism, she was profoundly disappointed that we, as a