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Pentecost: A Need For Our Lives
We go through life struggling. This is true for everyone. We all live with inferiorities, dashed dreams, and deep frustrations. Because of this we tend to grow jealous. We begin
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Restless Hearts Yearn For God
We are fired into life by a madness that comes from our incompleteness. We awake to life tense, aching, erotic, full of sex and restlessness. This dis-ease is, singularly, the
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Slow The Rat Race, Take A Rest
There is a story told of a traveling merchant who overloaded his wagon, one day, to the point where his horses could no longer pull it. Frustrated, he scrutinized his
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Midwifery – A Christian Vocation
Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners, in his Easter message this year, remarked that the resurrection of Christ calls us to be midwives of hope. That’s a metaphor worth reflecting
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The Cross As Unconditional Love
The cross of Christ is like a well-cut diamond. Turn it in the sun and you get a variety of colors and sparkles. Among other things, it brings out the
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Tales Of Two Earthy Saints
I rarely look to biographies of the rich and famous for my inspiration. Normally this is hagiography of the worst kind, the culture’s version of the lives of the saints.
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Don’t Kill Santa Claus Too Soon
In his bestselling book, “The Closing of the American Mind,” Allan Bloom describes a contemporary professor who sees his task as that of setting people free by breaking taboos: “He
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God Overcomes Scrambled Eggs
Some years ago, a young man came to me for confession. It was a difficult confession for him. He had been having an affair with a girl and she had
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God Speaks Through Children
We live by images, and we never have enough of them. Artists don’t sleep because there is always that restlessness to capture an image, to create a symbol. The rest
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Single Life Offers Opportunities
“The refusal of woman is fault in my chastity…and all my compensations are a desperate and useless expedient to cover this irreparable loss which I have not fully accepted. “I