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It’s becoming increasing difficult in today’s world to trust anything or anybody, for good reason. There’s little that’s stable, safe…
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Everywhere in church circles today you hear a lament: Our churches are emptying. We’ve lost our youth. This generation no…
What does it mean to have a vocation? The term gets batted around both in religious and secular circles and…
We tend to nurse a certain naiveté about what faith means in the face of death. The common notion among…
It’s hard to be humble, not because we don’t have more than enough deficiencies to merit humility, but rather because…
A friend of mine shares this story. She grew up with five siblings and an alcoholic father. The effect of…
In a remarkable book, The Inner Voice of Love, written while he was in a deep emotional depression, Henri Nouwen shares these…
The religious congregation to which I belong, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has had a long relationship with the indigenous…
Some years ago I went on a weekend retreat given by a woman who made no secret about the fact…
We quite naturally tend to think of the word “Christ” as Jesus’ second name. We think of the name “Jesus…
