• Our Struggle with Love and with God

  God is love. If this is true, and it is, then why are we afraid of God, and why are we afraid to die? We live in too much fear

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• Praying for Israel and Jerusalem

  I once lived in community for several years with an Oblate brother who was wonderfully generous and pious to a fault. But he struggled to pick up symbol and metaphor.

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• The Best Books that Found Me in 2025

  St. Augustine famously said: Concerning taste there can be no dispute. So, with no promise that these books will do for you what they did for me, these are the

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• Silent Night

  Nothing is perfect, but the hymn Silent Night nearly perfectly expresses how we should picture what happened at the birth of Christ. Its melody soothes like a mother soothing a

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• Who Would Have Thought It?

  I once had the privilege of visiting the Holy Land. It’s a strangely different place. Soaked in history, in struggle, in religion, in blood. Virtually every inch of its soil

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• Images for Advent

  Advent should never be confused with Lent. Lent is a penitential season. Its color is purple and its symbol is ashes. Unlike Lent, Advent is not about fasting and penance.

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• 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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