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It is funny where the lessons of our classrooms are sometimes understood. I studied philosophy when I was still a…
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Most of us are familiar with Pope Francis’ comment that today the church needs to be a field hospital. What’s implied…
Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and theologian, once wrote that the Gospel text he strongly identified with is the account…
Jesus’ death washes everything clean, including our ignorance and sin. That’s the clear message from Luke’s account of his death.…
We don’t much like the word disillusionment. Normally we think of it as a negative, something pejorative, and not as something that…
In 1985, Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published a novel entitled, Love in the Time of Cholera. It tells a…
"More tortuous than all else is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it." The prophet Jeremiah wrote those…
We all fear judgment. We fear being seen with all that’s inside us, some of which we don’t want exposed…
Like many others, I was deeply distressed to learn of the recent revelations concerning Jean Vanier. He was a person…
The renowned spiritual writer, Ruth Burrows, begins her autobiography with these words: “I was born into this world with a…
