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God Is The Real Parent
Towards the end of the movie, Rachel, Rachel, there is a particularly moving dialogue. Rachel, the story’s main character, an aging spinster teacher, is more than a little frustrated with
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Virtue in Self-sacrifice
Previous generations had a certain sense of sacrifice which, for better and for worse, we have all but lost. In my parents’ generation, to offer just one kind of example,
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An Old Monk’s Question
Recently, while giving a retreat at a Trappist monastery, an old monk came to talk to me. He shared with me at length about the ups and downs of more
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A Marvellous Symphony
James Hillman once said that a good image is the most open, most exploratory, most suggestibly subtle, yet most precise thing to allow the soul the widest imagination for its
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The Polished Stone
As a young seminarian, I spent a summer working in a retreat house. The priest directing the house had a curious hobby—he polished stones. During long, solitary walks he would
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The Gender Of God
One of the more contentious debates within contemporary circles concerns the gender of God. For centuries, the common, though unreflective, notion was that God was masculine—God the Father! Today there
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A Tired, Depressed People
We are a people who are losing heart. The effects of this can be seen almost everywhere. There is a loss of heart for fidelity within relationships, as less and
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The Power Of The Resurrection
We know that Christ has risen from the dead because, despite all death and wound, love exists and love continues in the world. Charity is the new life of Easter.
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A Thousand Little Things
Few spiritualities have ever caught our attention and imagination as has “the little way” of Therese of Lisieux. By the same token, few spiritualities have been as badly misunderstood. For
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Resolutions That Last
Most of us, I suspect, have our own long history of broken New Year’s resolutions. How many times have we begun a new year with the sincere intention of ending