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Cassie Bernall – Unlikely Martyr
One of the students who died in the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, was a seventeen year-old girl named Cassie Bernall. Soon afterwards a story began to
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Perspective on a Scandal
A number of things should be clarified to help us properly contextualize the present crisis of sexual abuse within the church. What needs clarification? Three things in particular: The effect
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Privileged Communication within the Communion of Saints
When I was a child, as part of our family prayer, we used to pray for a happy death. In my young mind, I had a certain conception of what
https://ronrolheiser.com/privileged-communication-within-the-communion-of-saints/
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Twenty Years In Exile
November 15th marked an anniversary of sorts for me, twenty years of writing this column. I began it in 1982, as a bi-weekly piece, while I was doing doctoral studies
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The Cross as Revealing Christ’s Descent into Hell
There’s a curious line in our creed which says that, immediately following his death, Jesus “descended into hell”. What, possibly, can that mean? Within the popular Christian mindset we have
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The Cross as Revealing God’s Unconditional Love
A number of years ago, a young man came to me because he was in crisis: He had been having an affair with his girlfriend and she had become pregnant.
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-cross-as-revealing-gods-unconditional-love/
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Anxiety as the Opposite of Faith
The opposite of faith in scripture is not doubt but anxiety. To lack faith is not so much to have theoretical doubts about God’s existence as it is to be
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The Grace in Creativity
In his recent novel, Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje creates a character named Ananda. Ananda’s wife had been brutally murdered in the civil war in Sri Lanka and Ananda is trying
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On Sex And The Unsurrendered Life
The task of life is ultimately to surrender, as the gospels define this. If you were to take all of Jesus’ teachings, all that’s said about belief, morality, and piety
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Post-Modern Nihilism
Nihilism has a curious variety of faces. Generally we think of it as some gloomy, philosophical ideology within which God does not exist, nothing means anything, and suicide is explored