• The Struggle to Will-the-One-Thing

  What makes a saint? One of my favorite definitions comes from Soren Kierkegaard who once famously wrote: “To be a saint is to will the one thing.” That sounds simple,

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• A Spirituality of Martyrdom

  Only if we adore something beyond ourselves will we stop adoring ourselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said as much when we wrote that we reach moral maturity on the day

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• Seeing the Resurrection

  God never overpowers, never twists arms, never pushes your face into something so as to take away your freedom. God respects our freedom and is never a coercive force. And

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• A Drama of the Heart – Jesus’ Sacrifice

  It is one thing to love when you feel love around you, when others understand you and are grateful for your person and gifts; it is quite another when everything

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• Inarticulate Loves

  There is a fine little poem by an American poet, Lee Yung Lee, about a relationship between a father and a son. I read it in church sometimes on Father’s

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• The Nature of Faith

  God made us in his image and likeness and we have never stopped returning the favor. We are forever creating God in our own image and likeness. We picture God,

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• Jesus and Justice

  Jesus and justice – rarely do we bring them together as the gospels do. Somehow we find it hard to bring together the Jesus who is so uncompromising in the

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• Images for Lent

  What is the meaning of lent? Why do we set aside forty days each year to voluntarily give up some legitimate enjoyments so as to prepare for Easter? The need

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• The Domestic and the Monastic

  “God is more domestic than monastic!” A novelist, Nikos Kazantzakis, wrote those words but a theologian might have. Christ was born into a family not a monastery. Not that there

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• “Blood and Water Poured Out”

  Paradox is everywhere: Sometimes the things you think will make you happy end up saddening you and sometimes the very thing that breaks your heart is also the thing that

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