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A Requiem for an Older Brother
Several weeks ago my older brother George died. His death was somewhat of a shock since he had been in relatively good health until a week before he died. His
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Lost Innocence
The biblical story of Saul is one of the great tragedies in all of literature. Saul’s story makes Hamlet look like a Disney character. Hamlet, at least, had good reasons
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A Lesson from the Misfit
More than a half century ago, Flannery O’Connor wrote a short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find. One of the main characters in the story is an elderly
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Our Over-Burdened Planet
Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake that evolution made. Douglas Abrams writes this in The Book of Hope, a book he co-authored with Jane Goodall. While
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To Fall in Love
To fall in love! We use the expression to cover many things. You can fall in love with a baby, a sports team, a city, a job, or another person.
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
In his Confessions, St. Augustine describes how his conversion to Christianity involved two separate moments of grace, the first that convinced him intellectually that Christianity was correct, and the second
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How Serious is Laughter?
In a homily, Karl Rahner once commented that in the Beatitudes in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus makes a rather stunning statement. He says, ‘blessed are you who are now weeping, for
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The One and the Many – Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations
One of the most ancient problems in philosophy is the question of ‘the one and the many’, whether reality is ultimately a unity or a plurality and how these interrelate.
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-one-and-the-many-ecumenical-and-interfaith-relations/
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The Anthropological Function of Gossip
In his novel, Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey offers this colorful image of gossip. The setting is a small town where there are rumors about the priest and a particular
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-anthropological-function-of-gossip-2/
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My Top 10 Books for 2022
The book you need to read finds you, and finds you at that time in your life when you need to read it. I believe that old axiom, and offer