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A Particularly Joyous Wedding
Last week I presided at a wedding ceremony. All weddings are special, but this one was particularly special. Why? The young woman getting married was wonderfully radiant and healthy, but
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Non-Discriminating Embrace that still Speaks its Truth
Be compassionate as your heavenly Father is compassionate. Jesus challenged us with those words and there is more in them than first meets the eye. How is God compassionate? Jesus
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When What is Precious is Taken From You
Perhaps the reality that is hardest of all to accept in life is the unalterable fact that everything that is precious to us will, in some way, eventually be taken
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Losing a Prophet
On the evening of May 18th, five priests driving north from Guatemala City for a community meeting were stopped by masked gunmen. After robbing the priests of their belongings, they
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Priestly and Affective Prayer
Prayer is classically defined as lifting mind and heart to God. That’s a good definition, but it needs an important qualification. There are two essential kinds of prayer: Something we
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Mystical Images for Our Religious Quest
There are few things as powerful as a poetic image. The nation with the best poets will ultimately triumph because poetry is more powerful than armies. An army can beat
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The Anatomy of Sacrifice
What do we mean when we say that we make a sacrifice? I have sacrificed my career for my children! I sacrifice a lot for my job! Love demands that
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Creativity as One Answer to Violence
In his novel, Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje creates a character named Ananda. Ananda’s wife had been murdered in the civil war in Sri Lanka and Ananda is trying to save
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There is a Season for Everything
A friend of mine likes to explain his religious background this way: “I have powerful conservative roots. I was raised in a very strong conservative, Roman Catholic, immigrant, German, farming
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Facing the Dragon – Confronting Grandiosity in our Lives
Every so often a book comes along that is truly important. I remember ten years ago reading Gil Bailie’s, Violence Unveiled, and sensing that this was a book of major
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