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Another Type Of Icon
Many people are aided in prayer by icons. I am too, though because I am more intuitive than sensate, the icons that move me more deeply are often not pious
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The Prayer Of Charity
God is found in solitude and silence! Few reputable spiritual traditions dispute this. Longstanding in Christian tradition is the dictum that nobody makes progress in the spiritual life unless he
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A Lesson Of Fundamentalism
Many of us today look askance at circles of piety, especially fundamentalistic ones. Most mainline Christians, share a common distrust and disdain for those who, with irritating enthusiasm, proudly, militantly,
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A Heart With Many Rooms
How many Catholics do you know today who are not frustrated or angry about something? Generally their frustration stems from the fact that they are fiercely committed and loyal to
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Let’s Look At Neo-Paganism
One of the most significant developments in the Western world today is the growth of neo-paganism. The manifestations of this are everywhere—in the arts, in the churches, and within intellectual
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Cultivating Loneliness
Few persons in recent centuries have touched the human heart as deeply as has Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher. There are many reasons for this, some of which are obvious.
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AIDS In The Body Of Christ
Mysticism is perhaps the thing we least understand within all of religion. We are mystically tone-deaf. We no longer believe much in anything that we cannot rationally explain. Robert Bellah
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When Love Goes Inarticulate
There is a fine little poem by a young Chinese America n poet from Chicago, Lee Yung Lee, which talks about the relationship of a father to his son. Entitled
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Anger Can Be Self-Serving
Several years ago, just as I was stepping away from the podium after giving a talk on social justice, I was challenged by a man and a woman, both very
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Church Running Out Of Priests
Gabriel Garcia Marquez once wrote a book with a curious title, Love in the Time of Cholera. Perhaps we might describe our time in the church today in an equally