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What If?
What if we all were more consistent? What if we all had wider loyalties? What if we were slower to dismiss others’ ideas? What if we took seriously the biblical
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Moral Progress and Regression
“We didn’t stop burning witches because we stopped reading scripture; we stopped burning witches because we kept on reading scripture.” Gil Bailie, Violence Unveiled, wrote those words and they teach
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An Invitation Inside of Christmas
We fight too much about Christmas, arguing about its meaning. For some, Christmas is for the children, a feast where we let their delight and freshness challenge our cynicism, where
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Advent – A Time to Learn How to Wait
Carlo Carretto, the renowned spiritual writer, spent many years living alone as a hermit in the Sahara desert. He wrote a number of books from that place of solitude, including
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Advent Longing
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once suggested that peace and justice will come to us when we reach a high enough psychic temperature so as to burn away the things that
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Different Kinds of Glory
We all nurse a secret dream of glory. We daydream that in some way we will stand out and be recognized. And so we fantasize about great achievements that will
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Marking an Anniversary
This week marks the 25th anniversary for this column. The Western Catholic Reporter, out of Edmonton, Alberta, published my first ever column on November 15, 1982. Glenn Argan was its
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Finding the Strength to Reach Across Differences
We are rarely at our best. Too often what shows forth in our lives is not what’s best in us: love, generosity, a big heart. More often than not, our
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Coping With Tragedy
Several years ago, late on a Sunday night, I received an email from one of my nephews. Three of his close friends had just been killed in a senseless automobile
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Our Longing for God’s Justice
Recently after a lecture, I was confronted by an angry man who accused me of being soft on God’s judgment and justice. Though angry, he was a good man, someone