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From Paranoia to Metanoia
Sometimes we’re a mystery to ourselves, or, perhaps more accurately, sometimes we don’t realize how much paranoia we carry within ourselves. A lot of things tend to ruin our day.
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Feeding off Life’s Sacred Fire
See the wise and wicked onesWho feed upon life’s sacred fire These are lines from Gordon Lightfoot’s song, Don Quixote, and they highlight an important truth, both the wise and the wicked
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Utopia, With Limits
When I was a child there was a popular song whose chorus repeated this line: Everyone is searching for Utopia. And we all are. Every one of us longs for a world
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God’s Nature – Exuberance or the Cross?
It’s funny where you can learn a lesson and catch a glimpse of the divine. Recently, in a grocery store, I witnessed this incident: A young girl, probably around 16
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A Happy Death
In the Roman Catholic culture within which I grew up, we were taught to pray for a happy death. For many Catholics at the time, this was a standard petition
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Fear
Unless you are already a full saint or a mystic, you will always live in some fear of death and the afterlife. That’s simply part of being human. But we
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Our Fear of Hell
Hell is never a nasty surprise waiting for a basically happy person. Hell can only be the full-flowering of a pride and selfishness that have, through a long time, twisted
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Suicide and Mental Health
As young boy, I longed to be a professional athlete but I had to soon accept the unwelcome fact that I simply wasn’t gifted with an athlete’s body. Speed, strength,
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Angels with Sickles and God’s Fury
There’s a haunting text in the Book of Revelation where poetic image, for all its beauty, can be dangerously misleading. The author there writes: “So the angel swung his sickle over the earth
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Our Deepest Insecurity
Why don’t we live happier lives? Why are we forever caught up in frustrations, tensions, angers, and resentments? The reasons of course are too many to name. Each day, as