
Heartbreak, Grief Work and Engaged Contemplation, continued
In light of the mass shooting at the gay club in Colorado Springs and other murders among college students this past week in America, we
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In light of the mass shooting at the gay club in Colorado Springs and other murders among college students this past week in America, we

We have seemingly interrupted our meditations on Praise to reflect on the heart-breaking events of murder at the gay Club in Colorado Springs and other colleges this

In my autobiography I called for “a preferential option for the young” to be a value alongside that of a “preferential option for the poor.” Not

In our recent daily meditations, we have been praising and therefore thanking Earth and Air, Fire and Water. As Thomas Berry put it in a recent

We are grieving the loss of still more young life at the hands of a young, 22-year-old, killer. Politicians’ hands are bloody when their rhetoric

We have been meditating on the gift that our Earth and Air and human existence is, a 13.8 billion year gift. Now, closer to home, we

In our recent daily meditations, we have been reflecting on Praise as in Rabbi Heschel’s observation that “praise precedes faith.” We have addressed the joy

Speaking of festivity and celebration, I am moved by Yeats’ simple poem: We must laugh and we must sing, We are blessed by everything Everything

It was my pleasure this past week to participate in the “Festival of Faiths” in Louisville, Kentucky. This annual event has been going on for 26

Wonders—and questions–about Air abound. We are learning to praise Air and not take it for granted. Science tells us that “we live inside a precariously thin
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