• Our Struggle with Love

  Several years ago, a Presbyterian minister I know challenged his congregation to open its doors and its heart more fully to the poor. Initially the congregation responded with enthusiasm and

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• Our Restless Selves

  During the last years of his life, Thomas Merton lived in a hermitage outside a monastery, hoping to find more solitude in his life. But solitude is an illusive thing

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• Jesus and The Poor

  I grew up a second-generation immigrant in the outback of the Western Canadian prairies. Our family was poor economically, subsistence farmers, with the necessities but seldom with much more. My

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• Ecumenism: The Imperative for Wholeness Inside the Body of Christ

  For more than a thousand years, Christians have not experienced the joy of being one family in Christ. Although there were already tensions within the earliest Christian communities, it was

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• An Invitation to Something Higher

  What is a sin? Is it a sin to not go to church on Sunday? Is it a sin to cheat on your taxes? Is it a sin to get

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• Lies and the Sin Against the Holy Spirit

  There is nothing as psychologically and morally dangerous as lying, as denying the truth. Jesus warns us that we can commit a sin that is unforgivable which (in his words)

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• Coming to Peace with our Lack of Recognition

  We crave few things as deeply as self-expression and recognition. We have an irrepressible need to express ourselves, be known, recognized, understood, and seen by others as unique, gifted, and

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• My Top Ten Books For 2024

  Full disclosure, I don’t read enough. A busy, pressured life affords me only small windows of time to read anything not directly related to my ministry. Nonetheless, I try to

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• Christ’s Birth in Bethlehem – Soothing or Disturbing?

  I’ve never been fully comfortable with some of my friends who send out Christmas cards with messages like: May the Peace of Christ Disturb You! Can’t we have one day a year

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• Searching for a Womb to Birth a Messiah

  “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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