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Fr Ronald Rolheiser
How I found an answer to my restlessness
i’ve been both blessed and cursed by a congenital restlessness that hasn’t always made my life easy. i remember as a boy restlessly wanderin...
Why do bad things happen to good people? The Cross provides the answer
in 1970, the british writer iris murdoch wrote a novel entitled a fairly honourable defeat . the story had numerous characters, both good an...
Why I feel grateful
as a vowed, religious celibate i’m very conscious that today celibacy, whether lived out in a religious commitment or in other circumstances...
What is 'spirituality' anyway?
what is spirituality and what makes for different spiritualities? the word "spirituality" is relatively new within the english-speaking worl...
An African tale of interconnectedness
everything is of one piece. whenever we don’t take that seriously, we pay a price. the renowned theologian hans urs von balthasar gives an e...
A tribute to my friend, Wendy Beckett
no community should botch its deaths. the renowned anthropologist mircea eliade suggested this, and its truth applies to communities at ever...
Struggling for sustenance
we all struggle not to give in to coldness and hatred. this was even a struggle for jesus. like the rest of us, he had to struggle, mightily...
My top 10 spiritual books of the year
in this annual round-up i will restrict myself to focusing only on books that deal explicitly with spirituality, notwithstanding some very f...
Why Our Lord decided to come as a child
god, it seems, favours the powerless, the unnoticed, children, babies, outsiders, and refugees with no resources or place to go. that’s why ...
The double message of Christmas
i’ve never been happy with some of my activist friends who send out christmas cards with messages like: “may the peace of christ disturb you...
Our lack of welcome
"widows, orphans and strangers”: that’s code in scripture for the three most vulnerable groups within a society at any given time. and both ...
Where piety and critical thinking meet
i live on both sides of a border. not a geographical one, but one which is often a dividing line between two groups. i was raised a conserva...
When is our life fulfilled?
when is our life fulfilled? at what point in our lives do we say, “that’s it! that’s the climax! nothing i can do from now on will outdo thi...
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