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Soul-Chained to Things Beyond Us
In his novel, Clowns of God, Morris West suggests that there are deep reasons why we are so incurably restless: “The fact is that we live only in communion –
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Sustaining a Prayer Life
It’s hard to sustain a regular life of prayer. Why? Why is it so difficult to pray regularly? Some reasons are obvious: over-busyness, tiredness and too many demands on our
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Don’t Worship Your Emotions
Every major spiritual tradition offers this challenge: Don’t worship your emotions! Don’t love only when you can feel natural sympathy. Don’t love only when you can feel good and clean
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Celebrating Life inside the Communion of Saints
Recently I led a memorial service for a friend who had died four years ago. Everyone who came to this service had also been at his funeral. Why another memorial
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Liberals and Conservatives – Their Worst and Their Best
Houston Smith, who writes textbooks on world religions, suggests that we should always judge a religion by what’s best in it, not by its more strident expressions. The same is
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A Higher Court of Things
Perhaps more than anything else, moral issues are what divide us. Sincere people, who can agree on almost everything else, often find themselves painfully divided other over issues such as
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Measuring Ourselves in Love
When I was younger, I was pretty confident that I knew what love meant. After all, we all experience love in some way, being in love, loving someone, being loved
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Painful Goodbyes and the Ascension
Among the deeper mysteries in life perhaps the one we struggle with the most is the mystery of the Ascension. It’s not so much that we misunderstand it, we simply
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Moral Loneliness
Robert Coles, in describing Simone Weil, once suggested that what she really suffered from and what motivated her life was her moral loneliness. What is that? Moral loneliness is what
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God’s Voice as Invitation
Where does God speak in our world? How does God speak? Whenever you hear a voice that sounds coercive, threatening, overbearing, that is somehow loud and in your face, you