God being God includes God not being who we are. How can someone who is not us not surprise us?
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It is never too late to meet the Lord in prayer
Never presume that you are one of the early hires and that Jesus offers his parable only to curb your jealousy of late arrivals. No, we all come so late in the day.
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What science can’t tell us about the mind (and Scripture can)
When we speak of minds, can someone who would reduce consciousness to biology offer an adequate picture of what it means for us to know something?
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How do we prevent our loved ones from repeating our mistakes?
God shows the way in the incarnation.
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Should we trust science?
Augustine’s Confessions take up a theme still at the center of our lives: Does our intelligence lead us to something beyond ourselves?
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We need to rethink what it means to be ‘chosen by God’
In our baptism, each of us has been chosen. So many others in this world have not. We must constantly ask ourselves: Why?
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What does it mean when we say the Assumption of Mary is a miracle?
We use the words “mystery” and “miracle” not to say that science has been stumped but rather to express the expansive claim that an event makes upon us.
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What is faith? The Canaanite woman shows us the answer.
“It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs,” Jesus told her. Yet she is not repelled by his parable. She engages it.
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Storms and the cross remind us: We are not in control
Like Peter, we might envy the one who walks on water, thinking that more control of our lives is all that we need.
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Can you be human without the world?
We like to fancy ourselves as free from an enveloping world.