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More Than a House or a Place
Home is more than a house or a place on a map. It’s a place in the heart, the place where you most want to be at the end of
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Losing the Song in the Singer
Often when listening to someone singing live or on television, I close my eyes to try to hear the song so as not to let the singer’s performance get in
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The Binding Power of Hatred
Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. We know this works for love. Does it also
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Rich Kids Growing Up Without Money – or Understanding
Gloria Steinem once confessed that, while never having been overweight, she has always been concerned about her weight because the genes she inherited from her parents predisposed her in that
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A Saint for Our Time
It is not enough today to be merely a saint; we must have a saintliness demanded by the present moment. Simone Weil wrote that, and she is right. We need
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The Eyes of Love
Imagine a young couple intoxicated with each other in the early stages of love. Imagine a religious neophyte in love with God, praying ecstatically. Imagine an idealistic young person working
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Our Heart is Stronger than our Wounds
Ten years before his death in 1996, Henri Nouwen was beset by a depression that nearly broke him. While in treatment, he wrote a very powerful book, The Inner Voice
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The Origin of Our Conflicts and Differences
Why do sincere people so often find themselves at odds with each other? The issue here is not about when sincerity meets insincerity or plain old sin. No. The question
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Taking Tension out of the Community
Whatever energy we don’t transform, we will transmit. That’s a phrase I first heard from Richard Rohr and it names a central challenge for all mature adults. Here’s its Christian
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The Power of Beauty
The world will be saved by beauty! Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that, Dorothy Day quoted it, and centuries before Jesus, Confucius made it central to his pedagogy. They were on to