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Making Love with the Divine
Kabir, a fifteenth-century Hindu mystic, writes: What you call ‘salvation’ belongs to the time before death. If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you
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Theology and Spirituality – Writing about It or Writing It
In the world of the arts, they make a distinction between persons who create an artifact, an artist, a sculptor, or a novelist, and persons who write about artists and
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What We Do in Private
No one is an island; indeed, no one is ever really alone. If you are a person of faith or even just someone with a highly attuned intuitive sense, you
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At the Origins of our Universe – Jesus and the Big Bang
Recently NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into space, the biggest and most expensive telescope ever built. It will take six months for it to travel a million miles
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My Top 10 Books for 2021
I’m not a literary critic, nor pretend to be. Simple fact, I don’t read enough. A busy, pressured life affords me only some smaller windows of time within which to
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No Room in the Inn
Jesus was born outside of the city, outside of a hospital, outside of a normal house. The Gospels tell us he was born in a stable, outside the city because
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Listening to Our Souls
During the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War, a group of Jesuit theologians who were resisting the occupation published an underground newspaper, Cahiers du Temoignage Chretien, which
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Human(Kind) – Ashlee Eiland
I could never be a literary critic, not because I can’t tell good literature from bad, but because I lack the hard edge. If I dislike a book, I hesitate
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Leaving Church
Why are so many people leaving their churches? There is no one answer to that question. People are complex. Faith is complex. The issues are complex. Looking at the question,
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Dealing with Emotional Paralysis
Our greatest strength is often our greatest weakness. Sensitivity is a gift, but as any sensitive person will tell you, that gift can be a mixed blessing. Sometimes a thick,