• Creating and Holding Space for our Brokenness

  Some years ago I went on a weekend retreat given by a woman who made no secret about the fact that not being able to have children constituted a deep

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• Jesus Christ – The Person and the Mystery

  We quite naturally tend to think of the word “Christ” as Jesus’ second name. We think of the name “Jesus Christ” like we think of names like “Susan Parker” or

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• Some Counsels on Faith and Religion for our Present Generation

  It’s no secret that today we’re witnessing a massive decline in church attendance and, seemingly, a parallel loss of interest in religion. The former mindset, within which we worried, sometimes

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• The Scent of Humility

  According to Isaac the Syrian, a famous 7th Century bishop and theologian, a person who’s genuinely humble gives off a certain scent that other people will sense and that even

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• Late Migrations

  Jesus says that if we follow him, the cross, pain, will find us. That message is chronically misunderstood. Maybe we would understand it better if Jesus had worded it this

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• A Lesson in Aging

  We live in a culture that idealizes youth and marginalizes the old. And, as James Hillman says, the old don’t let go easily either of the throne or the drive

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• Imagining Grace

  Imagine this: A man, entirely careless of all moral and spiritual affairs, lives his life in utter selfishness, pleasure his only pursuit. He lives the high life, never prays, never

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• Intelligence versus Wisdom

  There’s a huge difference between being bright and being wise, between brilliance and wisdom. We can be highly intelligent, but not very wise. Ideally, of course, we should strive to

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• Divine Understanding

  A number of years ago at a symposium on faith and evangelization, one of the speakers made a rather startling statement. She, a Christian activist, ended her presentation with words

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• Our Grandiosity and Our Wounds

  We wake up into life with the incurable sense that we’re special, that we’re the center of the universe. And, subjectively, we are! In our awareness we’re the center of

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