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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
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Hope at the time of death
Today I received the news that a close friend of our family was killed in an industrial accident. Nothing prepares you for that kind of news. Since the phone rang
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A Diet Of Antiseptics
In the church today we are witnessing the rise of a new legalism, a new pharisaism. Subtle, largely unrecognized and steadily growing in power, it is beginning to choke off
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Symbols Give Us Meaning
A young man once wrote to the poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, complaining that he found life boring and unexciting. He lived in a small town where it seemed nothing much