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.
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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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.
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The drive to succeed is hurting our kids—and their faith.
What do we teach our children? Faith is for Sundays; the rest of the week is for getting ahead.
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A Year of Mercy for those who don’t think they need it
If moderns no longer know what the word “sin” means, perhaps they should search their lives for frustration.
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When the Word becomes a mouthpiece
Scripture has proven itself rather lethal in the hands of modern men and women of faith, of any faith.
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I left seminary because I thought I’d be an unhappy priest. God knew better.
Give yourself to the Lord, embrace your vocation. Joy will creep up and tap you on the shoulder.
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There is no life without death.
Perhaps only those who choose baptism as a form of death, death in life, ever really know its power.