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In his book, The Second Mountain David Brooks suggests that a key to sustaining fidelity in any vocation is to build a structure…
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The ancient Greeks had gods and goddesses for everything, including a goddess of Shame called Aidos. Shame for them meant much more than it…
Saint Eugene de Mazenod, the founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Religious Congregation to which I belong,…
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https://youtu.be/Kg6MBXY2-SE With a small procession down the vast and empty central nave of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis began the…
"More tortuous than all else is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it." The prophet Jeremiah wrote those…
Rev. Kris Schmidt goes wake surfing on Wabamun Lake, west of Edmonton, in order to illustrate the boundaries that are…
https://youtu.be/NZMFPwPyTLc Mike Landry, Fr. Marc Cramer and Sara Dmitri talk about 1990's "Purity Culture" and the impact it had on christian…
The hardest part of learning to play the guitar is about the first three weeks or so. With about fifteen…
Hell is never a nasty surprise waiting for a basically happy person. Nor is it necessarily a predicable ending for…
A colleague of mine, a clinical therapist, shares this story: A woman came to him in considerable distress. Her husband…