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Dying into Safe Hands
It’s hard to say something consoling in the face of death, even when the person who died lived a full life and died in the best of circumstances. It’s especially
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In Safer Hands than Ours
One of my jobs as a priest is to preside and preach at funerals. Never an easy task. The deep truths of our faith which can be so consoling at
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Some Light-hearted Thoughts on a Very Heavy Subject
Some years ago, a friend of mine was facing the birth of her first child. While happy that she was soon to be a mother, she openly confessed her fears
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Struggling with our Complexity
In a book on preaching, entitled, Telling the Truth, Frederick Buechner challenges all preachers and spiritual writers to speak with “awful honesty” about the human struggle, even inside the context
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Dealing with Loss, Grief, and Obsessions
What can we say in the face of deep loss, inconsolable grief, or unrequited obsessions? As a graduate student in Louvain, I once posed that question to the renowned psychologist,
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On Not Running with the Crowd
In the Gospels the word “crowd” is nearly always used pejoratively, so much so that nearly every time the word is used you could preface it with the adjective “mindless”.
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A Meta-Narrative of Consolation
Several years ago, I was at a symposium at which we were discussing the struggle that many young people have today with their faith. One of the participants, a young
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Good Books That Found Me This Year
An old adage says that the book you need to read finds you. I believe that, though obviously the book likes a little help from its reader who needs to
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In Pursuit of Innocence
Annie Dillard once wrote this about innocence: Innocence is not the prerogative of infants and puppies, and far less of mountains and fixed stars, which have no prerogatives at all.
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Creativity as One Answer to Violence
In his novel, Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje creates a character named Ananda. Ananda’s wife had been murdered in the civil war in Sri Lanka and Ananda is trying to save
https://ronrolheiser.com/creativity-as-one-answer-to-violence/