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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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A Father’s Blessing
My father died when I was twenty-three, a seminarian, green, still learning about life. It’s hard to lose your father at any age, and my grief was compounded by the
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Atheists, Dark Nights, Good Friday, and Revelation
The classical atheistic thinkers of the Enlightenment, philosophers such as Frederick Nietzsche and Ludwig Feuerbach, taught that all religious experience is simply human projection. God does not exist. We create
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Becoming a Practicing Mystic
I teach a course on the renowned mystic John of the Cross. Since this is never a required course for any student, I usually begin the first class by asking