• Rolling the Dice on the Gospel

  They hadn’t understood about the loaves!  The Gospels use those words to describe the crowd that Jesus had miraculously fed with five barley loaves and two fish. They ate, but

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• Chastity As Purity Of Heart And Intention

  To live a chaste life is not easy, not just for celibates, but for everyone. Even when our actions are all in line, it is still hard to live with

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• Books That Have Crossed my Path in 2010

  There’s some rhyme and reason to how I select my reading material. I check reviews, I try to be alert to what gets mentioned when friends and colleagues talk literature,

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• The Rich Meaning of Christmas

  What does Christmas mean? Christmas is like a perfectly-cut diamond twirling in the sun, giving off an array of sparkles. Here are just some of its meanings: •       A four-year-old

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• No Room in the Inn

  Mary gave birth to a son, her firstborn. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.

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• Longing, Desire, and the Face of God

  “Like a deer yearns for flowing streams, so my soul yearns for you my God.” “My soul keeps vigil for you in the night.” We’ve all heard these lines, prayed

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• Virgin Birth

  Christian tradition has always emphasized that Jesus was born of a virgin. The Messiah could only come forth from a virgin’s womb. The main reason for this emphasis of course

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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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• Atheism and Belief

  God’s ways are not our ways! There is more truth to that than we normally think. God is ineffable. What that means is that God cannot be captured in our

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• Seeking a Confessor

  Perhaps more than anything else, we are unconsciously seeking a confessor, someone before whom we can open our hearts, be completely transparent, pour out our confusion, and freely admit our

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