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Walking Home from the Library in an Age of Ease
The Surprising Turn Toward Ancient Sanctuaries News reports over the past few seasons have noted an unexpected pattern emerging across the United States. Significant…
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Where Merit Ends and Providence Begins
The Pew and the Passing Verdict Sunday morning in a Philippine parish unfolds with a sensory density that leaves little room for abstract detachment.…
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The Sunk Costs of Piety
The Words in the Sanctuary: An Encounter with the Text The rhythm of the liturgy creates a particular kind of silence, a space where…
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Contemplation Beyond the Divide Between Religion and Spirituality
The Spiritual Hunger Behind Religious Departure The statement “I am not religious but spiritual” has become one of the characteristic confessions of modern life.…
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The Ego’s Last Possession
The Will That Tries to Surrender Many years ago, I encountered a short piece by Meister Eckhart entitled “On True Obedience.” Eckhart was a…
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What Are We Growing Toward?
The Tiredness That Rest Does Not Reach There are evenings when we close the computer and wonder why we feel so exhausted. We have…
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When Knowledge Turns the Neighbor into an Enemy
A Sentence Heard at Mass On Sunday, my wife and I attended Mass. The second reading came from Romans 13:8–10, where Paul recalls several…
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The Permission to Enjoy Being Alive
When Exercise Begins to Feel Like Punishment Exercise is supposed to make us feel more alive. The heart works harder, blood circulates, breathing deepens,…
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When Leaving Church Feels Like Leaving Christianity
When a Place Becomes the Whole World Imagine a person in Japan who became Christian as an adult. Baptism was not a cultural formality…
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The View We Cannot Possess
The World Seen from Within A religious worldview is rarely experienced by a devout believer as one interpretation among many. From within the faith,…
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The World That Continued
The Book on My Father’s Shelf When I was young, I found a book on my father’s shelf that frightened me more than any…
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The Faith We Sang Together
The Hymns That Remember Us Only after many decades do we begin to understand what certain songs have carried for us. A traditional hymn…