• Fear of Missing Out

  It’s hard for a child to have to go to bed in the middle of an evening when the rest of the family is still celebrating. Nobody wants to go

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• Then God Created Light Again

  It doesn’t matter whether you picture the origin of time the way science does, as beginning with the Big Bang, or whether you take the biblical account of the origins

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• Straining To Hear the Voice of Good Friday

  They shall look upon the one whom they have pierced!  A phrase that names the voice that’s left behind on Good Friday. In 1981, an anonymous young girl was brutally

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• The Secret Hidden from the Amoral

  According to the Bible, there’s a secret that’s hidden from the amoral, known only by the virtuous. The Book of Wisdom tells us that when we are not virtuous we

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• The Therapy of a Public Life

  Forty years ago, Philip Rieff wrote a book entitled The Triumph of the Therapeutic. In essence, he argued that today in the Western world so many people need psychological therapy

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• When Did We Lose Basic Respect for Each Other?

  When did we lose it? When did we lose that deeply-engrained, forever-sanctioned sense that however much we might disagree with each other or even dislike each other, we still need

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• Lenten Ashes

  We enter the season of Lent by putting ashes on our foreheads. What’s symbolized here? Perhaps the heart understands better than the head because more people go to church on

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• Our Best Farewell Gift

  In his farewell speech in John’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that he is going away but that he will leave us a parting gift, the gift of his peace, and

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• Trying Not to Make God Look Bad

  For fifteen years, I taught a course entitled The Theology of God. The students in that course were predominately seminarians preparing for ministry, along with a number of lay students

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• The Perfect Ritual

  Sometimes it takes an outsider to help you to see the beauty and depth of something you have never fully appreciated. I suspect this true for many of us, myself

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