Friday, October 17, 2025

Community!

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What, singularly, are we missing today within Christianity that could make us credible to the world and to our own families? Community.… In ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

The real tragedy is…

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Psychologist John Powell submits that there are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young is not one of them. These are the tw...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Real change needs to happen

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The road to final victory on the issue of abortion is long, the task mammoth. Hearts need to change, relationships need to change, sexual pat...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

When nobody shows up…

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What kind of power may we seize upon to try to change this situation? Too many people, I am afraid, have placed their hopes in legal power, ...
Monday, October 13, 2025

"Normal" vs. the godly life

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The human instinct is to define the normal by idiosyncratic preference and social consensus. We need to challenge this if religion is to have...
Friday, October 10, 2025

The demise of the common good

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More important, though, the demise of hospitality has occurred because we have developed a sense of privacy and efficiency that militate aga...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Get up, dust yourself off!

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As we get older the games, the bullying and the hurts become less physical, more psychological, more sophisticated. But one dynamic remains ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

True egalitarianism

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What is the mind and heart of Christ? It is the acceptance of the fact that everyone is special and therefore all are equal. Nobody sits abo...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Mummify that beauty!

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Like the ancient Egyptians, we attempt to mummify our youth and sexual attractiveness through contemporary forms of “embalming”: cosmetics, ...
Monday, October 06, 2025

No wall is strong enough!

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By dying as he did, Christ shows that he loves us in such a way that he can descend into our private hells. His love is so empathetic and co...
Friday, October 03, 2025

We need a theology that…

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We need a theology that teaches us that God does not just give us one chance, but that every time we close a door he opens another one for u...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

But I've screwed it up too many times and too badly…

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We have too much fear, in the end, of God. Ultimately we look at the scrambled egg, at our own mistakes and sins, and believe that the loss ...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Distraction is not a virtue!

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Theologian Jan Walgrave commented that our present age constitutes a virtual conspiracy against the interior life. That is a gentle way of s...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Leisure as virtue

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David Steindl-Rast has commented that leisure is not the privilege of those who have time, but rather the virtue of those who give to each i...

A textual criticism thought

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if you follow the harder readings, you will end up with an unintelligible text; if you follow the shorter readings, you will end up with no ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Gratitude is the key

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Gratitude is the key to all. We come to personal healing and to reconciliation with others to the exact extent that we are warmed and vitali...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Home!

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Real love and real friendship are home—you do not go home from them! Whenever we experience love, however powerful, from which we need to go...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Nostalgia is death

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Nostalgia is an unhealthy depression, an adolescent sentimentality which leaves us clinging to the past so as to be unable to enter the pres...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The prophet

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To pray and do social justice is to be prophetic. But that’s a lonely and hard business. Prophets are persecuted, are powerless and are reje...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

A bit of a double standard, no?

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Why is it that a Christian may not, in good conscience, ignore the teachings of Scripture and the church regarding prayer and private morali...