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Living in the Holy Spirit
Few expressions so succinctly summarize what is asked of us as Christians as does the expression: “to live in the Spirit.” Too often, however, this phrase is used in a
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A Mystic for Today
As child of my own generation, I catch myself drawn to the lives of the rich and famous. As a child of my parents’ generation, I also find myself attracted
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Chaos And Original Sin
Shortly before she died of cancer, Princeton mayor, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, commented in The New York Times that too many people spontaneously judge a cancer victim as somehow responsible for
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The Traditional Idea Of Love And Marriage – Under Siege
Most of us who are over 35 were raised on a certain morality regarding marriage, sex, and family. In brief, we were taught the ideal of one sexual and marriage
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Gratitude the Basic Virtue
There’s a Jewish folk-tale which runs something like this: There once was a young man who aspired to great holiness. After some time at working to achieve it, he went
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A Grieving Church
We are, among other things, a church which is grieving. That insight, that we are suffering in this particular way, that we are a church which is grieving, is, I
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Justice and Spirituality
A crucial spiritual task for our time is that of bringing together justice and contemplation, commitment to the poor and genuine worship of God. Few do it well. More often
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Taken Completely by God
Theresa of Avila would sometimes become very bold in her prayer and say to God: Kiss me full on the mouth. This is her own twist to the opening line
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Truth and the Resurrection
As children we live in a dream world, naively believing that there is somewhere a divine magic which can, and will in the end, swish away all evil, injustice, and
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An Evening With Jim Wallis
A crucial spiritual task for our time is that of bringing together justice and contemplation, commitment to the poor and genuine worship of God, Few do it well. More often