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“Contemplation is the highest expression of man’s intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is

Acedia means essentially lack of interest and absence of passion. It is not the same as the sin of omission, which is the lack of

Stories about people who acted for the good of the whole in peculiarly difficult circumstances, even to the extreme sacrifice, are important for us. They

Today is Good Friday, a day to meditate on evil and sacrifice and the price good people pay for following their conscience and having one,

Yesterday marked a positive moment for rescuing American democracy from the cynicism and greed of the richest man in the world and the wannabe-dictator who

The Four Paths of Creation Spirituality are themselves spiritual practices that lead to bringing compassion into the world. Not compassion understood as pity or handing crumbs

Tonight, Tuesday, is the second round of our gathering called “From Darkness to Dawn” consisting of four “conversations” with host Cameron Trimble, myself, and four notable

We are now in the first days of Lent. As I write this, yesterday was Ash Wednesday when traditionally many Christians receive a cross made of

Last night the Republican-led Congress voted to effectively kill Medicaid and food and health care for the poor in order to please billionaires with new

It is no secret that we are living in a time of apocalypse and antichrist. Hildegard of Bingen painted such times as an unraveling of order. But
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