• How Do We Know God Exists?

  Recently I was listening to a religious talk show on the radio when a caller asked: How do we know that God exists? A good question. The radio host answered

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• Speaking Truth in Parables

  Jesus was once asked why he spoke in parables. His answer is more than a little curious: I speak in parables . . . lest they should see with their

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• What Makes Us Family – Biology or Faith?

  In one sense, we might say that Christianity invented religion in that before Christianity, communities of faith were mostly ethnically and tribally based. Jesus defined a family of faith differently,

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• Letting People into Our Stingy Heaven

  John Muir once asked: “Why are Christians so reluctant to let animals into their stingy heaven?” Indeed, why? Especially since St. Paul tells us in the Epistle to the Romans

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• All Saints and All Souls

  At a conference which I attended, a psychiatrist shared this story. A woman came to see him in considerable distress. Her anguish had to do with her last conversation with

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• The Psalms as Prayer

  “God behaves in the psalms in ways he is not allowed to behave in systemic theology.” That quip from Sebastian Moore might be highlighted at a time when fewer people

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• The Perfect Posture for Prayer

  In her autobiography The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day shares how she once prayed at a low time in her life. Dorothy Day, as you know, grew up without faith. An

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• Celibacy and Marriage Need Each Other

  “Why did early Christianity alight on the ideal of virginity, when an intelligent or even just a suspicious Roman could see that its adoption would undermine the very fabric of

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• The World Will be Saved by Beauty

  In the movie The English Patient there’s a very heartwarming scene. A number of people from various countries are thrown together by circumstance in an abandoned villa in post-war Italy.

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• A Tradition of the Heart – Roman Catholic Devotions

  Growing up in a Roman Catholic home, devotions were always a vital part of our religious diet. While our family saw the Eucharist as more important than devotions, we nourished

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