If only there were an app that alerted us every time that Christ was near, every time that Christ wanted us to let up on our worthwhile labors long enough to look at someone we love.
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The Sermon on the Mount is Christ’s rallying call
The sermon is so simple. However dark your world, imitate me and all will be well. The question it poses is likewise quite stark: Do we believe him enough to rally?
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We cannot ‘find’ God. But we can go to the place where God is seeking us.
We use the word “God” to speak of that which is much too great for us to seek and to find. We cannot search for God to satisfy our curiosity. God must find us, or we are lost.
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What Christ’s crown of thorns teaches us in troubled times
Our history remains hazardous, but it does not stand apart from God in Christ.
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What do the Gospels say about parents behaving badly a sporting events?
Perhaps hovering parents only display a drive shared by all: a desire to be our own saviors.
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Do humans make rituals—or do rituals make us human?
We are not angels. We cannot be spiritual without being religious. Why? Because we cannot be human without rituals.
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When we express ourselves, we imitate God
We are never more ourselves than when we express ourselves.
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What all sinners have in common with addicts
Can anyone adequately define what it means to be an alcoholic? Someone who regularly abuses alcohol is physically ill because of biological, even genetic, factors. And, like anyone suffering from a psychological pathology, an alcoholic’s free will is typically curtailed. Finally, as with any sinner, there’s probably no alcoholic who doesn’t bear some moral responsibility […]
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What makes a family holy?
We may not yet be saints, but this does not make our families any less sacred.
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When Christmas is neither merry nor white
We make Christmas into something it is not and wonder why it disappoints.