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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
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Mother’s Day
There’s an old adage that offers a wise counsel, even as it leaves us powerless to heed its advice: Pick your parents wisely! Easier said than done; but the adage
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A Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire, and Soul
Nature, desire, and soul – we rarely integrate these well. Yet they are so inextricably linked that how we relate to one deeply colors the others; and, indeed, spirituality itself
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Accepting Truth, Whatever its Cloak
When I was student in the seminary, I had two kinds of teachers: One kind, precisely because they were fiercely loyal to all that is Christian and Catholic, would have
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God’s Quiet Presence in Our Lives
The poet, Rumi, submits that we live with a deep secret that sometimes we know, and then not. That can be very helpful in understanding our faith. One of the
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The Transcript of Our Trial
The biblical accounts of Jesus’ passion and death focus very much on his trial, describing it in length and in detail. And there is a huge irony in how it