• Overcoming the Divisions that Divide Us

  We live in a world of deep divisions. Everywhere we see polarization, people bitterly divided from each other by ideology, politics, economic theory, moral beliefs, and theology. We tend to

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• Can You Lose Your Vocation? 

  Recently I received a letter from a man who shared that he was still deeply haunted by a story he’d heard in grade school many years before. One of his

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• How Can It All Have a Happy Ending?

  There’s a line in the writings of Julian of Norwich, the famous 14th century mystic and perhaps the first theologian to write in English, which is endlessly quoted by preachers, poets,

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• My Top Ten Books for 2017

  Taste is subjective. Keep that in mind as I share with you the ten books that most touched me this past year. That isn’t necessarily a recommendation that you read

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• The Christ-Child of the Year

  Christmas 2017 Every year Time magazine recognizes someone as “Person of the Year”. The recognition isn’t necessarily an honor; it’s given to the person whom Time judges to have been

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• Fear of God as Wisdom

  Why don’t we preach hellfire anymore? That’s a question asked frequently today by a lot of sincere religious people who worry that too many churches and too many priests and

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• The Real Tragedy of Sin 

  The real tragedy of sin is that often the one who is sinned against eventually becomes a sinner, inflicting on others what was first inflected upon him or her. There’s

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• Reticence and Secrecy as Virtue

  In all healthy people there’s a natural reticence about revealing too much of themselves and a concomitant need to keep certain things secret. Too often we judge this as an

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• Playing Loose With the Truth

  It can be quite disheartening to watch the news these days. Our world is full of hatred, bigotry, racism, and over-stimulated greed and ego. The gap between the rich and

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• God’s Closeness

  There’s a growing body of literature today that chronicles the experience of persons who were clinically dead for a period of time (minutes or hours) and were medically resuscitated and

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