Justice and charity – revisited
December 12, 2019
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We’re all familiar, I suspect, with the difference between justice and charity. Charity is giving away some of your time,
Being anchored in God’s goodness
December 5, 2019
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What would Jesus do? For some Christians, that’s the easy response to every question. In every situation all we need
What constitutes fidelity?
November 28, 2019
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It’s becoming increasing difficult in today’s world to trust anything or anybody, for good reason. There is little that’s stable,
Saints for a new situation
November 21, 2019
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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
Living out a vocation
November 14, 2019
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What does it mean to have a vocation? The term gets batted around both in religious and secular circles, and
Faith and dying
November 7, 2019
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We tend to nurse a certain naïveté about what faith means in the face of death. The common notion among
The frustrating struggle for humility
October 31, 2019
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It’s hard to be humble, not because we don’t have more than enough deficiencies to merit humility, but rather because
The grace within passivity
October 24, 2019
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A friend of mine grew up with five siblings and an alcoholic father. The effect of her father’s alcoholism was
Grieving as a spiritual exercise
October 17, 2019
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In a remarkable book, The Inner Voice of Love, written while he was in a deep emotional depression, Henri Nouwen
The arrival of refugees, old and new
October 10, 2019
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The religious congregation to which I belong, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has had a long relationship with the
Creating and holding space for our brokenness
October 3, 2019
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Some years ago I went on a weekend retreat given by a woman who made no secret about the fact
Jesus Christ: the person and the mystery
September 26, 2019
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We quite naturally tend to think of the word “Christ” as Jesus’s second name. We think of the name “Jesus