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Weakness Leads To Strength
Two years ago I was given a very mixed blessing: I got sick. Oh, I had been sick before: the usual acceptable sorts of things, appendicitis, a couple of ripped-up
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Zorba and Religion
Zorba and Religion 070483 I am not sure how often I have read Nikos Kazantzakis’, Zorba the Greek. It is a haunting book with a strange power to ignite and
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Guilt Thwarts Celebration
06/13/83 One of the hardest things to do is to celebrate. We want to, we need to, but we don’t know how to! Celebration does not come naturally to us.
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Emerging From Stone
A powerful and haunting piece of sculpture by Michelangelo is entitled: The Awakening Slave. It shows a body struggling to emerge from stone, to pull itself free. Part of the
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Keeping One’s Perspective
I live and work with a lot of talented persons. The University of Louvain is one of the oldest and most renowned universities in the world. It has a unique
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Author Tells Merton’s Story
In 1948 a young and very idealistic Trappist monk wrote the story of his own conversion. The story was classic: a young man, bursting with life and dreams, searches, desperately
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Despair And Resurrection
The resurrection challenges our right to despair. Despair is something we misunderstand, just as we misunderstand resurrection. Both are not experiences which are extraordinary, at the end of life. Resurrection
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Eleventh Hour Conversions
Conversion begins with the act of falling in love. All miracles do. Only love does miracles, only it has the power to genuinely subvert the deepest ruts in our lives,
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Getting in Touch with Hate
Woody Allen once proposed a set of courses for a university curriculum. Among others, he proposed these: An Introduction to Hostility; Intermediate Hostility; Advanced Hatred and Theoretical Foundations of Loathing.
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Poverty and Transfiguration
Have you ever had the experience of being touched very deeply by something that left you, in its wake, strangely inarticulate? The experience is profound – it moves you, frightens