• Loving our Enemies

  Lorenzo Rosebaugh, an Oblate colleague shot to death in Guatemala two years ago, used to share at Oblate gatherings some advice that Daniel Berrigan once gave him. Lorenzo, contemplating an

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• A Contemporary Apologetics

  One of the reasons why we don’t often find a good Christian apologetics today is because so many of our best theologians write at such a level of academia that

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• Saved by One Man’s Sacrifice

  We are saved by the death of Jesus! All Christians believe this. This is a central tenet within the Christian faith and the center of almost all Christian iconography. Jesus’

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• Sublimation And The Sublime

  Celebration is a paradoxical thing, created by a dynamic interplay between anticipation and fulfillment, longing and inconsummation, the ordinary and the special, work and play. Life and love must be

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• On Blessed and Cursed Consciousness

  There’s a Buddhist parable that runs something like this: One day as the Buddha was sitting under a tree, a young, trim soldier walked by, looked at the Buddha, noticed

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• Following Jesus – According to the Letter or the Spirit?

  I work and move within church circles and find that most of the people I meet there are honest, committed, and for the most part radiate their faith positively. Most

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• Building an Ark

  If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. You will recognize these words as the opening lines of Rudyard Kipling’s

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• Straining for Sabbath amidst the Demands of Phones and Computers

  A comedian recently quipped that today’s information technologies have effectively rendered a number of things obsolete, most notably phone-books and human courtesy. That’s also true for human rest. Today’s information

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• Tormenting the Cat

  Eighty-five years ago, G. K. Chesterton looked at his society and saw some things that disturbed him. Here’s his comment: There comes an hour in the afternoon when the child

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• Some Hymns for Justice

  The great Jewish prophets, the forerunners of Jesus, coined a mantra which ran something like this: The quality of your faith will be judged by the quality of justice in

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