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Some of my favorite authors are agnostics, men and women who face life honestly and courageously without faith in a…
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A particularly powerful Gospel story recounts Jesus meeting with a Syro-Phoenician woman. Central to that story is where their encounter…
Several years ago Hollywood made a movie, City of Angels, about an angel named Seth whose job it was to…
He’s a loser! You’re a loser! Among all the hurtful slurs we mindlessly utter this particular one is perhaps the…
Huston Smith, the renowned commentator on world religions, submits that you should not judge a religion by its worst expressions,…
Ralph Waldo Emerson calls the stars in the night sky “envoys of beauty, lighting the universe with their astonishing smile”…
There’s an axiom that says: Roman Catholics tend to adore Mary while Protestants and Evangelicals tend to ignore Mary. Neither…
Anyone who has ever watched a fire knows that at a point the flames subside and disappear into smoldering coals…
Recently a student I’d taught decades ago made this comment to me: “It’s been more than twenty years since I…
For centuries, suicide was considered as an act of despair and despair itself was seen as the most grievous sin…
