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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
https://ronrolheiser.com/a-crisis-of-faith-or-of-the-imagination/
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Mother Teresa’s Faith
A recent book on Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, makes public a huge volume of her intimate correspondence and in it we see what looks like a
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A Conspiracy Against Interiority
Recently I heard an interview on the radio with an American journalist who had just returned to the USA after living for nearly twelve years in Paris. While living there,
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The Silence of Life
Meister Eckhard once suggested that nothing so much resembles the language of God as does silence. That challenges us on many levels: What language will we speak in heaven? We
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Our Unfinished Symphony
“Our life is a short time in expectation, a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. There is a quality of sadness that pervades all
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Understanding Suicide
Canadian poet, Margaret Atwood, says that it is not enough to say certain things just once. Some things need to be said, and said, until they don’ need to be
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Songs of Innocence and Experience
One of my favorite writers, Christopher de Vinck, once wrote a series of essays entitled, Songs of Innocence and Experience. Those two words, innocence and experience, don’t easily go together.