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Our Struggle For Empathy And Generativity
In our normal, daily lives we are invariably so self-preoccupied that we find it difficult to be able to accord others the same reality and value we give to ourselves.
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Holiness, Wholeness, and Depression
External appearances can easily fool us, and often do. That’s true in every area of human life, and religion is no exception. Some years ago, I lived in a seminary
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The Imperative for Wholeness inside Christ
For more than a thousand years, Christians have not had the joy of being one family around Christ. Although there were already tensions within the earliest Christian communities, it was
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The Non-Violence of God
In his deeply insightful book, Violence Unveiled, Gil Bailie takes us through a remarkable section of the diaries of Captain James Cook, the famed British scientist and explorer. Visiting the
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On the Dangers of Defining Ourselves
Given the speed and change in our world today, the oceans of information being given us by the new technologies, the speed with which knowledge now passes through our lives,
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My Ten Favorite Books of 2013
De gustibus non est disputandum. That’s a famous line from St. Augustine wherein he suggests that taste is subjective and that what one person fancies might not be to another
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Christmas – Its Checkered Origins and its Checkered Sequence
If someone who had never heard the story of Jesus were to ask any of us about his origins, we would, I suspect, begin with the story of his annunciation
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Staying Awake
In his autobiography, Report to Greco, Nikos Kazantzakis recounts a conversation he once had with an old monk. Kazantzakis, a young man at the time, was visiting a monastery and
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Every Tear Brings the Messiah Closer
“People are always impatient, but God is never in a hurry!” Nikos Kazantzakis wrote those words and they highlight an important truth: We need to be patient, infinitely patient, with
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Misguided Loyalties
Anyone familiar with the life and writings of Simone Weil will, I am sure, agree that she was a woman of exceptional faith. She was also a woman with an