• Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat

  The last supper account in John’s gospel gives us a wonderful mystical image. The evangelist describes the beloved disciple as reclining on the breast of Jesus. What’s contained in this

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• Simplifying our Spiritual Vocabulary

  Somewhere near his 75th birthday, Morris West wrote a series of autobiographical essays entitled, A View from the Ridge. In the Prologue of that book he suggests that at age

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• God and Violence

  God is non-violent. God does not prescribe violence. Violence should never be rationalized in God’s name. That is clear in Christian revelation. But that immediately poses the question:  What about

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• The Other Side of Orthodoxy

  There are more ways than one in which our belief system can be unbalanced so as to do harm to God and to the church. What makes for a healthy,

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• Mothers’ Day

  For many years, I’ve had a bias against Mothers’ Day. I’m not against the concept, it’s a private grudge. My own mother died 40 years ago and my ignoring of

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• The Gift that was Henri Nouwen

  Henri Nouwen was perhaps most popular spiritual writer of the late 20th century and his popularity endures today. More than seven million of his books have been sold world-wide and

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• The Resurrection as Vindicating Human Fidelity and God’s Silence

  Theologians sometimes try to simply the meaning of the resurrection by packaging its essence into one sentence: In the resurrection, God vindicated Jesus, his life, his message, and his fidelity.

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• The Passion of Jesus According to John

  Each year on Good Friday the Passion of Jesus Christ according to John is read aloud in our churches. John’s Gospel, as we know, was written later than the other

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• The Unquiet Frontiers of our Lives

  Few books have garnered as much respect during the past five years as has Charles Taylor’s, A Secular Age. That respect is well-deserved. Given secularity’s convoluted history, there isn’t any

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• The Roots of Forgiveness

  In one of James Carroll’s early novels, he offers this poignant image: A young man is in the delivery room watching his wife give birth to their baby. The delivery

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