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Forever Being Ahead Of Our Souls
Sometimes nothing is as helpful as a good metaphor. In his book, The God Instinct, Tom Stella shares this story: A number of men who made their living as porters were hired
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Only in Silence
The Belgian spiritual writer, Bieke Vandekerckhove, comes by her wisdom honestly. She didn’t learn what she shares from a book or even primarily from the good example of others. She
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My Top Books for 2015
Taste, as St. Augustine said some 1700 years ago, is subjective. That should be acknowledged upfront whenever someone recommends a reading list. In my case, I need to state too
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The Meaning of Christmas – Connecting the Dots between the Crib and the Cross
Christmas 2015 The Gospel stories about the birth of Jesus are not a simple retelling of the events that took place then, at the stable in Bethlehem. In his commentaries
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Sex and Our Culture
No generation in history, I suspect, has ever experienced as much change as we have experienced in the past sixty years. That change is not just in the areas of
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Sensitive to Community, Beyond Ourselves
Some years ago I was challenged by a Bishop regarding an article I’d written. We were talking in his office and the tone eventually got a little testy: “How can you
https://ronrolheiser.com/sensitive-to-community-beyond-ourselves/
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The Hiddenness of God and the Darkness of Faith
When I first began teaching theology, I fantasized about writing a book about the hiddenness of God. Why does God remain hidden and invisible? Why doesn’t God just show himself
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Our Muslim Brothers and Sisters
This is not a good time to be a Muslim in the Western world. As the violence perpetrated by radical Islamic groups such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram
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Lacking the Self-Confidence for Greatness
We all have our own images of greatness as these pertain to virtue and saintliness. We picture, for instance, St. Francis of Assisi, kissing a leper; or Mother Teresa, publicly
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Faith, Doubt, Dark Nights, and Maturity
In one of his books on contemplative prayer, Thomas Keating shares with us a line that he occasionally uses in spiritual direction. People come to him, sharing how they used
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