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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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A Threat to Our Decency
Jesus tells us that in the end we will be judged on how we dealt with the poor in our lives, but there are already dangers now, in this life,
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Paralysis, Exasperation, and Helplessness as Prayer
Several years ago I received an email that literally stopped my breath. A man who had been for many years an intellectual and faith mentor to me, a man whom
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A Plea for the Soul
It’s hard to find your soulmate in someone who doesn’t believe you have a soul. Recently on The Moth Radio Hour a young woman shared the story of her breakup with her
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Kathleen Dowling Singh, RIP
No community should botch its deaths. That’s a wise statement from Mircea Eliade and apropos in the face of the death two weeks ago of Kathleen Dowling Singh. Kathleen was
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Close the Distance not the Gate
Nobel-prizing winning author, Toni Morrison, assessing the times, asks this question: “Why should we want to know a stranger when it is easier to estrange another? Why should we want
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Language as Opening or Closing Our Minds
Thirty years ago, the American Educator, Allan Bloom, wrote a book entitled, The Closing of the American Mind. This was his thesis: In our secularized world today our language is becoming ever-more empirical,
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Healthy and Unhealthy Fear of God
As a theologian, priest, and preacher, I often get asked: “Why isn’t the church preaching more fear of God anymore? Why aren’t we preaching more about the dangers of going