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Tenderness And Politics
Few things are as singularly urgent as is the need to bring about a better marriage, between justice and contemplation. The tension that exists between them expresses itself in a
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Rooted In Honesty
You are as sick as your sickest secret! That’s a phrase some Alcoholic Anonymous groups use to challenge people to understand what, at its roots, sobriety really is. Drunkenness, of
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Broken and Distributed
Ten years ago, while I was doing graduate studies in Belgium and still on faculty at a theology college back home, I received a letter from one of the students
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The Restless Spirit
In the preface to Elizabeth O’Connor’s book, Search for Silence, N. Gordon Cosby writes: “The one journey that ultimately matters is the journey into the place of stillness deep within
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Some Of The People
Michael Meade, the mythologist, is one of the truly gifted story tellers in America today. Maybe it’s his Irish chromosomes, but when he tells a story everyone, from young to
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A Church Which Comforts
Recently I attended a church synod in my home diocese. About 200 very committed persons had gathered for a week to reflect on what the church should be doing today.
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My Parents Shaped My 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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Ten New Commandments
God once gave us Ten Commandments to help teach us love. They are not infallible indicators of love, for we can keep them and still not be loving, but they
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David Facing Goliath
There is no substitute for imagination. Without good images for integrating experience, brute reality overpowers us and leaves us feeling depressed and helpless. Unless our symbols are working, we have.
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Headlong into the Pudding
Many of us, I am sure, are concerned that Christmas has become too much of a secular and commercial event. Stores put up Christmas decorations in late October, Santa Claus