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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
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Signs of a Good Marriage
No amount of preaching shapes a soul as much as does the influence of a good Christian life. If that is true, and it is, then no marriage course is
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The Incarnation Means God is in the Ordinary
Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of Zorba the Greek, once told this parable: A man came up to Jesus and complained to him about the hiddenness of God. “Rabbi,” he said,
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Reacting to Sinead
Funny how religion finds its way into everything. A few weeks ago, Irish singer, Sinead O’Connor, appearing on the U.S. television series, Saturday Night Live, tore up a picture of
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We Have Gone Too Far
About a year ago, I was giving a workshop when a man about my own age made the following comment: “I shudder when I think about the Catholicism we were
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Drawing Fire From Tradition
A couple of years ago, a group of Christians who are very involved with justice issues in the Third World wrote a short booklet inviting Christians in the First World
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Ten Years Of ‘In Exile’
This week marks the 10th anniversary of this column. The WCR published my first-ever column on Nov. 15, 1982. Ten years, hundreds of columns and one anthology book later it
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Mourning Incompleteness
There is a story in the Old Testament that both shocks and fascinates by its sheer earthiness. A certain king, Jepthah, is at war and things are going badly for
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Grieving Life’s Inadequacy
Someone once suggested that we have two great struggles: The first half of life is spent struggling with the sixth commandment, the second half struggling with the fifth. We spend
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Social Justice Revisited
Few groups have acted with as much moral passion and energy during these past years as have the various social justice groups within the church and within society. From church