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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
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I Believe in the 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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Yearly thoughts From The Court Fool!
Exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece suggesting that we re-introduce the idea of having a court jester, a bumbling fool in every organization, church, and family, who regularly,
https://ronrolheiser.com/yearly-thoughts-from-the-court-fool/
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The Embrace Of Good Friday
There are different kinds of loneliness, just as there are different visions of intimacy. We ache in many places, just as we dream various dreams of consummation. I remember as
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Waiting for a Wildflower
How do we reach the unchurched? What should we be doing in light of the fact that church attendance, commitment to the church, and simple interest in the church as