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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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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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