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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
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Revirginization Revisited
This piece is for all of you who, for every kind of reason, feel less than virgin. Too many of us have been raped, abused, used, or, in youth and
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Bless This House
Recently I was invited by a young couple to bless their new home. This custom, blessing houses, is not exactly fashionable today, both because we move so often that we
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No Trumpets For Men
Recently at a workshop that I was giving a woman shared this at the luncheon break: “I have this secret dream. In it, I blow a trumpet one Sunday morning