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Opening Our Secrets to the Light
You are as sick as your sickest secret! That’s a wise axiom. What’s sick in us will remain sick unless we open it up to others and to the light
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An Invitation to Something Higher
In 1986, Czechoslovakian novelist Ivan Klima published a series of autobiographical essays entitled, My First Loves. These essays describe some of his moral struggles as a young agnostic seeking for
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The Imperialism of the Human Soul
In his autobiography, Nikos Kazantzakis shares how in his youth he was driven by a restlessness that had him searching for something he could never quite define. However, he made
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An Honest Prayer
Recently I received a letter from a woman whose life, in effect, had imploded. Within the course of a few months, her husband divorced her, she lost her job, was
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The Triumph of Good Over Evil
A colleague once challenged Pierre Teilhard de Chardin with this question. You believe that good will ultimately triumph over evil; well, what if we blow up the world with an
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Our Unconscious Search for God
How do we search for God? It is easy to misunderstand what that means. We are forever searching for God, though mostly without knowing it. Usually, we think of our
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God Cannot Tell a Lie
Lying is the most pernicious of evils, the most dangerous of sins, the worst of blasphemes, and the one sin that can be unforgivable. Perhaps we need to be reminded
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Grieving Death
Most of us are familiar with the story of Zorba the Greek, either through Nikos Kazantzakis’ famous book or through the movie. Well, Zorba was not a fictional character. He
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What is Love Asking of Us Now?
“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Anne Lamott Those are words worth
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What is Your Practice?
Today, the common question in spiritual circles is not, “What is your church or your religion?” But, “what is your practice?” What is your practice? What is your particular explicit