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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
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The Struggle to Bless
At workshop recently, as we were discussing the tension that often exists today between younger and older clergy, a middle-aged priest said: “I’d like to bless the younger priests, but
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Turning Sixty
Well, I’ve beaten the odds When I was 27 years old, I attended a symposium on death and dying. One of the things we did was fill in a long
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David and Goliath
There’s no substitute for imagination. Without good images to provide us with vision, the world overpowers us and leaves us feeling small and helpless. Unless our symbols are working, fate
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Lost is a Place Too
Several years ago, I met a young man who was working through a very difficult time in his life. He had graduated with a degree in business ten years before,
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Restlessness on a Friday Night
Driving me to the airport this summer, my youngest brother told me a story: One Friday afternoon, he and some co-workers were talking about what they would be doing that
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A Crisis of Faith or of the Imagination?
J. R. Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings, was one of the key persons who helped C.S. Lewis accept Christianity. As a man of considerable imagination he was not
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