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Friendship Is Liberating, Too
I was raised to believe that prayer and private morality were the foundations of the spiritual life. They were non-negotiable. You were considered a good Christian if you prayed, privately
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Just Too Busy To Bow Down
Theologian Jan Walgrave, recently commented that our present age constitutes a virtual conspiracy against the interior life. That is a gentle way of saying that, within our culture, distraction is
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Dare To Be One In A Thousand
Recently, I was giving a talk to a group of young adults preparing for marriage and was trying to challenge them with the Christian teaching on love and sexuality. They
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A Life Handcrafted By God
A soul is not something that is given us; it’s something that’s formed. Lately, I’ve taken to looking at who and what helped shape me. What lives and incidents, love
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No Salvation In Sexology
A nun I know was travelling one day by airplane and found herself engaged in a conversation with a lively young man. The young man had a myriad of questions,
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Hatred Is Not Always Bad
Our age is an angry one. Hatred abounds, both within the church and outside of it. A world rages in woundedness. Liberals hate conservatives, conservatives hate liberals; feminists tend to
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A String Of Empty Tombs
Spring and Easter, a conspiracy between nature and religion, creation and redemption, to make newness, to thaw things out, to rejuvenate and re-virginize, to make sunshine, to warm frozen places,
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Love Through Locked Doors
Several years ago, a family I know well lost a daughter through suicide. She was in her late 20s and had become dangerously depressed. An initial attempt at suicide failed.
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Godlessness and Good Friday
The German, poet, J.C.F. Holderlin, once commented on the sad mood of our age. “Now is the night of the world,” he asserted. “God has withdrawn, as the sun sets
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Veronica’s Veil
It was a Friday afternoon But the day had not been marked out for crucifixion Because the sky was not black And I, a professional Simon, was rushing off to