Perhaps we need to go slower with shame. It is too powerful a tool to wield carelessly.
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The Woman Caught in Adultery: A Tale of Dust and Darkness
We all live in the dark, in the dust. If we are going to assail evil where we find it, what of the evil we do not see in ourselves?
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How can we help people who have strayed from the church feel at home again?
The issue is spiritual hunger. Where do we wander when we fail to recognize it, and how might awareness of it bring us home?
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God created our bodies. We should beware ideas that reject them.
God did indeed create pure spirits to serve and to glorify him. They are called angels. But God created us men and women to be of flesh and blood.
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The Transfiguration shows us that evil does not win in the end
God’s moral creation, though it suffers the assaults of evil, will not be shaken nor become unbalanced. The good will prevail.
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Our Lenten sacrifices don’t make God love us more. So why do we do it?
In Lent, we fast, we pray and we give to the poor. God does not love us more for doing these things. God cannot love us more. So why do we bother?
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Ash Wednesday reminds us that nothing (except God) stays the same
We know that nothing stays the same, yet we live as though nothing ever changes.
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God doesn’t let us pick our origins. But he gives us the freedom to choose our destiny.
To be a creature is to have an origin, one we neither fashioned nor chose. To be a child of God is to have a destiny, one we freely choose, a gift we are given to cherish.
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What if you finally meet God, and God looks like your worst enemy?
That may indeed happen, and if it does, you will immediately, intuitively know this: You are going to be purified.
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The revolutionary meaning of Christian hope
If revolt against injustice, oppression and sorrow begins in the heart, it will not die. The broken heart is the tomb from which Christ rises.