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Have I Been Saved?
The famed and feisty psychologist, Fritz Perls, was once asked by a well-meaning Christian if he was saved. He responded by saying, I am still trying to figure out how
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Rationalizing Our Anger and Moral Indignations
I have come to set the earth on fire and how I wish it were already blazing. … Do you think that I have come to establish peace on earth?
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Embittered Moralizing – An Occupational Hazard for Good, Faithful Persons
In a masterful book on grace, Piet Fransen suggests that we can test how well we understand grace by gauging our reaction to this story: Imagine a man who during
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Our Need to Give to the Poor
We need to give to the poor, not because they need it, though they do, but because we need to do that in order to be healthy. That’s an axiom
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Struggling to Understand Suicide
Sadly, today, there are many deaths by suicide. Very few people have not been deeply affected by the suicide of a loved one. In the United States alone, there are
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On Whining and Weeping
Karl Rogers once suggested that what’s most private within us is also most universal. His belief was that many of the private feelings that we would be ashamed to admit
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Why Faith Feels Like Doubt and Darkness
God is ineffable. This is a truth that’s universally accepted as dogma among all Christians and within all the great religions of the world. What does it mean? In essence,
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An Addiction to Comfort
Fifty years ago, Kay Cronin, wrote a book entitled, Cross in the Wilderness, chronicling how, in 1847, a small band of Oblate missionaries came from France to the American Pacific
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Raissa and Jacques Maritain and the New Evangelization
“The Church has sanctified extreme passions, blessed the frenzied, acclaimed the neurosis it had previously canalized and nothing, it seemed, could stop me at its door. Nothing.” These are the
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Contemplative Sound Bytes
Recently I attended an Institute on contemplative awareness at which James Finley was the keynote-speaker. He brings some pedigree to the task. He has nearly forty years of experience as