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Ten days ago a majority of Americans linked hands with Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Putin–the first invader of a European sovereign nation since WWII. Now many
Are we really made for these times? Are we up to it spiritually? What does it take spiritually speaking to be up for times like ours? Can we
There is a grief ritual that I can heartily recommend at this time of profound distress and dread and even doom. But also potential grace. I
It is sometimes said that wisdom comes with old age. Well, it comes from the young too and the Scriptures speak to that and I am
Let me turn to my brother G. Thomas Fox’s book linking uncertainty and “becoming edGe-ucated.” It strikes me as being very, very timely. I began my book
Thomas Aquinas teaches that despair is the “most dangerous” of all sins. It is not the worst—injustice is—but it is the most dangerous. Why? Because when a person
T. S. Eliot says this about the mystics: “Mystics are the only hope—or else despair.” The mystic offers medicine for despair and confronts it–despair in oneself,
As I write this, my sister-in-law lies very near to death, having just received the last rites of the Catholic Church. Her family has gathered in
In recent daily meditations, we have been considering the immense role that the Via Creativa plays in Thomas Aquinas’s theology. Being an “image of God” is
According to Aquinas, Joy is born of Love. That is why joy is an anchor when struggle, strife and suffering swirl all around us. Aquinas teaches
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