Today God takes our hatred, our small worlds of anger and cruelty, and sets us free.
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
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Death and Desire: Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
In Jesus, desire, the true love, destroys the dominion of sin.
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Shattered Love: a reflection on the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Even the strongest of loves goes down into the shades of death.
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It’s sad, but shame sells
Once you see another as an object of your desires, it is only a small step to see the other as an object to be marketed.
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Why do we pray to a God that allows the evil of the Holocaust?
If God does not exist, we waste our time, confessing our sins. If God does exist, our understanding of evil and our role in it is so small, so limited as to be worthy of contempt. But that’s not who God is.
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God does not need to separate the sacred and profane. We do.
The earth itself has become a dwelling place for the divine.
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The problem with ‘channeling’ God
God isn’t a mysterious object to be cajoled or collared.
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What’s wrong with making nature your temple?
You can’t be human alone, you can only be human with others.
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Ash Wednesday is a day for harsh action and blunt declarations.
Sin is ugly. Sin is stupid. Sin separates one human from another.