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Religion, Secular Thought, and Health and Happiness
There is no such a thing as pure objectivity, a view that is free of all bias. Yet that’s the claim often made by non-religious, secular thinkers in debates about
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Displacing Ego and Narcissism
The Buddhists have a little axiom that explains more about ourselves than we would like. They say that you can understand most of what’s wrong in the world and inside
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The Stigma of Suicide
Recently I read, in succession, three books on suicide, each written by a mother who lost one of her children to suicide. All three books are powerful, mature, not given
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Innocence, Complexity, and Sanctity
Some years ago, I officiated at a wedding. As the officiating priest, I was invited to the reception and dance that followed upon the church service. Not knowing the family
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Caring for Our Soul
What does it profit you if you gain the whole world but suffer the loss of your own soul? Jesus taught that and, I suspect, we generally don’t grasp the
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Things Beyond Our Imagination
Recently, at an academic dinner, I was sitting across the table from a nuclear scientist. At one point, I asked him this question: Do you believe that there’s human life
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Our Overstimulated Grandiosity – and Our Impoverished Symbols
There are now more than seven billion people on this earth and each one of us feels that he or she is the center of the universe. That accounts for
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God’s Ineffability – What’s Revealed in Jesus’ Eyes?
God, as I understand him, is not very well understood. A colleague of mine, now deceased, was fond of saying that. It’s a wise comment. Anyone who claims to understand
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Dorothy Day – A Saint for Our Time
Sometime soon we will witness the canonization of Dorothy Day. For many of us today, especially those who are not Roman Catholic, a canonization draws little more than a yawn.
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Human Nature – Is it Somehow all Wrong?
An American humorist was once asked what he loved most in life. This was his reply: I love women best; whiskey next; my neighbor a little; and God hardly at all!
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