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Well there are different kinds of spiritualities: Spiritualities of the Ascent, Spiritualities of the Descent, and Spiritualities of Maintenance, and each is important. Spiritualities…
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We are all, I suspect, familiar with the famous expression from Julian of Norwich, now an axiom in our language.…
When the Romans designed crucifixion as their means of capital punishment, they had more in mind than simply putting someone…
Several years ago, in the question and answer period after a public lecture, a rather disgruntled young man asked me…
Most of us have been raised to believe that we have right to possess whatever comes to us honestly, either…
We don’t know how to celebrate things as they’re meant to be celebrated. We want to, but mostly we don’t…
What’s to be learned through failure, through being humbled by our own faults? Generally that’s the only way we grow.…
A colleague of mine, a clinical therapist, shares this story: A woman came to him in considerable distress. Her husband…
I’ve been both blessed and cursed by a congenital restlessness that hasn’t always made my life easy. I remember as…
In 1970, the famed British writer, Iris Murdoch, wrote a novel entitled, A Fairly Honourable Defeat. The story had numerous characters, both…
