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Not Our Own Children
Towards the end of Margaret Laurence’s novel, A Jest of God, there is a particularly moving dialogue: Rachel, the story’s main character, an aging, spinster teacher, is more than a
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Supporting Family Values
The issue of “family values” has long divided liberals and conservatives. It constitutes an ideological fault-line, determining what newspapers we read, what television programs we watch, what circles we socialize
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The Descent Into Hell
Several years ago, a young woman I knew attempted suicide. She was 23 years old and away from home. Her frightened, concerned family rushed to her side. They brought her
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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
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-cross-as-revealing-christs-descent-into-hell/
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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