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Suicide – Reclaiming the Memory of Our Loved One
Each year I write a column on suicide. Mostly I say the same thing over and over again, simply because it needs to be said. I don’t claim any originality
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A Visit from the Goddess of Night
There are few more insightful studies into the spirituality of aging than the late James Hillman’s book, The Force of Character. Ironically Hillman was more critical of Christian spirituality than
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Disciples with many Faces
In a new book entitled, Jesus of Nazareth, famed German scripture-scholar, Gerhard Lohfink, describes how people in the gospels relate to Jesus in different ways. Not everyone was an apostle, not
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Robert Moore on Human Energy
Few thinkers have influenced me as profoundly as Robert L. Moore. Who is he? He’s a scholar who has spent almost 50 years studying human energy from the perspective of
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On Being Perpetually Distracted
There’s a story in the Hindu tradition that runs something like this: God and a man are walking down a road. The man asks God: “What is the world like?”
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On Not Being Stingy With God’s Mercy
Today, for a number of reasons, we struggle to be generous and prodigal with God’s mercy. As the number of people who attend church services continues to decline, the temptation
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The Regrets We Can Live With
In her recent book, The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd presents us with a deeply conflicted heroine, Sarah, a highly sensitive woman who grows up the daughter of a
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Wearied in our Patience
Thirty years ago, before the airline hijackings of September 11, 2001, before the shoe-bomber and others like him, it was simpler to travel by air. You didn’t need to take
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Our Gaze upon the City
Jesus, it seems, had mixed feelings towards the world. He loved the world, laid down his life for it, and challenged us to love the world, even as he criticized
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Dag Hammarskjold on Sexuality and Desire
The lusts of the flesh reveal the loneliness of the soul. Dag Hammarskjold, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, wrote those words and they highlight part of the deeper
https://ronrolheiser.com/dag-hammarskjold-on-sexuality-and-desire/