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Editing Your Own Life
The laws of mathematics and physics have forever been one of our great constants. They are predictable and reliable, not given to strange surprises. But now, more and more, scientists
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Love in a Time of Opposition
How do you stay positive, preach hope, and remain loving and big-hearted in the face of opposition, misunderstanding, hostility, and hatred? This is what Jesus did and that particular quality
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The Triumph of Appearance
Focus on your image, because image is everything! Those words or at least words to that effect, were the caption of a famous ad several years ago. I remember being
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Fragments from some Prophetic Loaves and Fishes
After Jesus had fed a crowd of more than five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, he asked his apostles to gather up the fragments that were left over,
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Getting it down to the Essentials
Sometime after his 70th birthday, Morris West wrote an autobiography which he entitled, A View from the Ridge. By ridge, he meant the angle that 70 years of living had
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Struggling with my Father’s Blessing
My father died when I was twenty-three, a seminarian, green, still learning about life. It’s hard to lose your father at any age and my grief was compounded by the
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Discerning the Truth
Many of us today tend to be intimidated by any kind of knowledge that makes scientific claims. Who dares argue with science? Who dares argue with the experts? Very few,
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Touching our Loved Ones inside the Body of Christ
Twenty-eight years ago, when I first began writing this column, I wrote a piece that I entitled Binding and Loosing inside the Body of Christ. Among all the things I’ve
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The Richness of the Mystery of God
G.K. Chesterton once said that one of the reasons he believed in Christianity was because of its belief in the trinity. If Christianity had been made up by human person,
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A Meta-Narrative of Consolation
Several years ago, I was at a symposium at which we were discussing the struggle that many young people have today with their faith. One of the participants, a young