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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,
https://ronrolheiser.com/dealing-with-loss-grief-and-obsessions/
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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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Subtle Forms of Idolatry
In my more reflective moments, I am sometimes forced to ask myself: Am I really interested in God or am I only interested in things about God? Am I more
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On Not Running with the Crowd
In the Gospels the word “crowd” is nearly always used pejoratively, so much so that nearly every time the word is used you could preface it with the adjective “mindless”.
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Maturity in Relationships and Prayer
Several years ago, a friend shared this story with me: Raised a Roman Catholic and essentially faithful in going to church and in trying to live an honest moral life,
https://ronrolheiser.com/maturity-in-relationships-and-prayer/
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Being Stretched by Great Writers
British writer, A.S. Byatt, is perhaps the foremost novelist in the English language today. She will, no doubt, one day be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Her newest novel,
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Struggling to be inside the Present Moment
During the last years of his life, Thomas Merton lived in a hermitage in an attempt to find more solitude in his life. But solitude is a very illusive thing
https://ronrolheiser.com/struggling-to-be-inside-the-present-moment/
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Does God Have Favorites?
Does God love some people more than others? Does God have favorites? This is an old, disputed question with centuries of history: Is there a chosen race? Are some people