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Jesus Was A Good Loser
It is hard for us to love each other. Our relationships are too charged with competition, jealousy and violence. Win! Be the best at something! Show others you are more
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Staying Home On A Friday Night
I am old enough to have known another time. Things were different when I was little. Many of life’s pleasures weren’t available and people made due, celebrating what there was
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The Eucharist Is An Embrace
There is a story told about a four-year-old Jewish boy, Mortakai, who refused to go to school to study Hebrew and the Torah. Every time his parents attempted to send
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Compassion And Abortion
At the Democratic national convention in San Francisco last summer, Jesse Jackson ended his address with a plea to everyone to vote according to conscience. A vote for conscience, he
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Three Praises Of Fantasy
We have always been taught it is a bad thing to fantasize about sex, to have bad thoughts. That might be true, but it is virtually impossible, and perhaps unhealthy,
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Incarnation As God With Us
For many of us, I suspect, it gets harder each year to capture the mood of Christmas. About the only thing that still warms us is memories, memories of younger
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Life Is A Messy Business
Atheistic philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, once commented on why he did not believe in God. The reason, he stated, is because ambiguity is the fundamental phenomenological fact within our existence and
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People Don’t Break Easily
Dan Berrigan once commented that if Jesus returned to earth he would take a whip and drive out both the patients and doctors from all counselling and psychologists’ offices with
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Keeping Fire In The Eyes
Every so often we spend time in front of a mirror checking for signs of aging. We turn all the lights on and study ourselves. Are there wrinkles in our
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Getting Angry With God
Recently a lady came to see me who was suffering from a curious resentment. She was angry at God. Her feelings were vague and not clearly focused, but she felt