• Under a Bridge in Austin

  Recently at a workshop, a woman shared her anxiety about the death of her brother. Her older brother had died from the Covid virus before there were vaccines for it,

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• Different Ways of Being Spiritual but Not Religious

  Nothing so much approximates the language of God as does silence. Meister Eckhart said that. Among other things, he is affirming that there is some deep inner work that can

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• The Fading of Forgiveness

  In a recent issue of Comment Magazine, Timothy Keller, theologian and pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, wrote an insightful essay entitled, The Fading of Forgiveness, within

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• The Richness of the Eucharist

  What is the Eucharist? What is supposed to happen when we gather to celebrate the ritual that Jesus gave us at the Last Supper and asked us to perpetuate until

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• Complexity and Paradox

  Reading the Letters of Dorothy Day recently, I ran into this line, “doubtless we need a Savonarola as well as a St. Francis.” She was speaking about what spirituality needs

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• Who is Close to God’s Heart?

  Who has God’s sympathy? For whom especially should we be praying? For whom should we be asking God’s blessing? We are in the middle of the Olympic Games. What we

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• Can We Prove that God Exists?

  I wrote my doctoral thesis on the value of various philosophical arguments that try to prove the existence of God. Can there be such a proof? Brilliant philosophers, from Anselm,

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• Bruised and Wounded – Understanding Suicide

  Some things need to be said and said and said again until they don’t need to be said anymore. Margaret Atwood wrote that. I quote it here because each year

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• Why Stay in the Church?

  Several weeks ago after giving a lecture at a religious conference, the first question from the audience was this one: How can you continue to stay in a church that

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• What’s Inside the Face of God?

  O God, for you I long; for you my soul is thirsting. My body pines for you like a dry, weary land without water. We pray these words with sincerity.

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