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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
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Make Space For Christ In Life
At the beginning of this Advent, someone handed me a batch of stickers which read: Keep Christ in Christmas. “Do something with these,” he lamented, “put them on your car,
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A Recipe For Life’s Blender
Cross-fertilization always makes for interesting combinations, novel sparks. Recently, I ran a number of very different kinds of writers, C.S. Lewis, John Updike, G.K. Chesterton, Iris Murdoch, William Auden, Keith
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Taking The Sting Out Of Life
“Mother tended to become riveted on what she felt as a personal slight or insult but she would not discuss it with you…She silently brooded over the incident and carried