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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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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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