• 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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• Everything is Wrong About Them, Except Themselves

  Gilbert K. Chesterton, the renowned Catholic apologist, was great friends with George Bernard Shaw, the famous playwright, even though Shaw, an agnostic, had major issues with Chesterton’s belief in God

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