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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
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Struggling with Grandiosity
We live in a world wherein most everything over-stimulates our grandiosity, even as we are handed less and less tools to deal with that. Several years ago, Robert L. Moore
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Us First!
“I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.” Socrates wrote those words more than twenty-four hundred years ago. Today more than ever these are words
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Of Guns and Pacifism
The Gospels tell us that after King Herod died, an angel appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, telling him: “Get up! Take the Child and His Mother and
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The Struggle to Love Our Neighbor
“The most damaging idolatry is not the golden calf but enmity against the other.” The renowned anthropologist, Rene Girard, wrote that and its truth is not easily admitted. Most of us
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Sensitivity and Suffering
Daniel Berrigan, in one of his famous quips, once wrote: Before you get serious about Jesus, first consider carefully how good you are going to look on wood! In saying this,
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Ordinary Goodness and Our Spiritual Journey
The spirituality writer, Tom Stella, tells a story about three monks at prayer in their monastery chapel. The first monk imagines himself being carried up to heaven by the angels.
https://ronrolheiser.com/ordinary-goodness-and-our-spiritual-journey/
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Faith and Fear
A common soldier dies without fear, yet Jesus died afraid. Iris Murdoch wrote this and that truth can be somewhat disconcerting. Why? If someone dies with deep faith, shouldn’t he