
Disobedience as a Virtue: The Dark Side to Obedience
A strong argument can be made that the primal story of our first parents’ sin is not about pride or disobedience but about acedia. Why
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A strong argument can be made that the primal story of our first parents’ sin is not about pride or disobedience but about acedia. Why

The story about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has often been preached as a story about the sins of pride and disobedience.

Thomas Merton’s book on Ishi: A Meditation begins with the following stark words: Genocide is a new word. Perhaps the word is new because technology

Let us this July 4th look for medicine that can heal our ailing species that is busy threatening itself and other beings on our planet

Some may wonder why we are meditating on creation and its sacredness when the very foundations of our democracy are burning to the ground in

Part of the Holy Week story is the revolutionary act attributed to Jesus of turning over tables of the sellers in the Temple. New Testament

We considered in yesterday’s DM the great price that Native peoples have paid for their colonization. They call it a soul wound. The healing begins

Holy Week seems like a good time to meditate on evil, since not only Christians, but most people can recognize in the Jesus story, a

In their fine work, The Last Week, New Testament scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan inform us that the paths humans can choose to

This past week, while meditating about the epiphany of evil that revealed itself on January 6, I experienced a welcome counterpoint in the fine PBS
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