• 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

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• My Top Ten Books for 2020

  When St. Augustine said that “concerning taste there can be no dispute”, he was only partially right. Admittedly, taste always has a subjective aspect; but there’s always an objective component

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• Christmas as Shattering the Containers of Our Expectations

  Funny how God invariably shatters the containers of our expectations. We have a notion of how God should act and God ends up acting in a way that shatters all

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• The Illusion of Invulnerability

  Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s a pious axiom that doesn’t always hold up. Sometimes the bad time comes and we don’t learn anything. Hopefully this present bad

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• From Saint Tarcisius to People Magazine: Our Evolution in Admiration and Imitation

  When I was a young boy growing up in a Catholic community, the catechesis of the time tried to inspire the hearts of the young with stories of martyrs, saints,

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