• The Slow, Imperceptible March of Goodness

  God writes straight with crooked lines. That axiom sounds clever, but is there real truth or depth to it?  Can good ever really arise out of evil? Do love, truth,

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• The Value of Atheists

  In his monumental study of atheism, Michael Buckley suggests that atheism is invariably a parasite that feeds off bad religion.  It feeds off bad religion, picks on bad religion, and

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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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