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Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The book about love and loss that everyone should read
jesus says that if we follow him the cross will find us. that message is chronically misunderstood. maybe we would understand it better if j...
A lesson in ageing
we live in a culture that idealises youth and marginalises the old. and, as the psychologist james hillman says, the old don’t let go e...
Grace and mercy are never given out cheaply
imagine this: a man entirely careless of all moral and spiritual affairs lives his life in utter selfishness, with pleasure his only pursuit...
Intelligence is not enough
there’s a huge difference between being bright and being wise, between brilliance and wisdom. we can be highly intelligent, but not very wis...
Divine understanding
we often hear biblical scholars speak of god’s self-emptying in the incarnation, of christ’s burying himself into anonymity, and of god’s pa...
Grandiosity can lead to greatness
we wake up into life with the incurable sense that we’re special, that we’re the centre of the universe. and, subjectively, we are. in our a...
What does it mean to be 'born again'?
what does it mean to be “born again”, to be “born from above”? if you’re an evangelical or baptist, you may have already answered ...
God speaks to us in every event of our lives
the problem in the world and in the churches, the american theologian jim wallis suggests, is that perennially conservatives get it wro...
Wanted: certain kinds of saints
the french philosopher simone weil once commented that it’s not enough today to be merely a saint. rather, “we must have the saintliness dem...
Every generation needs to hear the lives of the saints
each year, i write a column sharing with readers the title and a brief synopsis of the 10 books that touched me most that year. occasionally...
How to avoid bitterness
as christians, we are asked to imitate christ. how do we do this? one way is to imitate jesus’s action of holding, carrying, purifying and t...
Ecumenical relations
the question of intercommunion within our churches today is a big one, an important one and a painful one. i’m old enough to remember anothe...
Rachel Held Evans, 1981-2019
no community should botch its deaths. mircea eliade wrote those words and they’re a warning: if we do not properly celebrate the life of som...
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