The Falling Away of the Old
Religion often becomes a program of certainty that doesn’t fully embrace the dynamism of divine creativity, where moments like incarnation and resurrection cause old sacred paradigms to fall away.
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Category: Essays
The Ordinariness of Lent
In the desert, Jesus discovered that he was human and hungry and lonely. Lent is not so much about penances and bodily denial as it is a season to discover our ordinariness.
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Disney’s Encanto Is All About Seeing
Let’s examine four main dichotomic themes in Disney’s Encanto. There are spoilers!
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Accepting Impermanence and Experiencing Heaven Now
The things in our life are all passing. They are gifts to help us in our journey to a union with God. When we accept impermanence, we discover heaven on earth. When we let go of ‘shoulds’ and illusions and expectations, we find salvation.
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The Ego: Another Name for the Evil Spirit
The ego cares about our possessions, our status, and our group membership – all things that are passing. The spiritual life ought to lead us to put our stock in the lasting promise of God.
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Doing the Necessary Inner Work
We need to balance the inner work required to fight racism, transforming our own hearts, in addition to outer work like advocacy.
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Breath: The Power to Give Life and Take it Away
My wife Sarah reflects on the life-giving power of the breath.
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Fatigue & Fear
Zoom fatigue, parenting fatigue, pandemic fatigue! Can we have courage to trust God in the midst of this rather than cling to false securities?
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How the Pandemic Will Change Church
How will this pandemic reshape church? What will the future of Christianity look like?
Read MoreThe Good Spirit is Lurking
It’s hard to find the good spirit in the midst of this pandemic, but it’s all around us.
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Moments of Grace
What I might call “God moments”, my friend Mary calls moments of grace. She writes beautifully and poetically of her days of living cancer while noticing those quiet moments of peace and Presence.
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Faith Seeking Understanding
It’s human to want order and absolutes, yet the ‘wisdom of the years’ and our lived experience reveals a journey into mystery.
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Marian Email Retreat
This guide will offer you a process and framework for discerning a particular decision using the approaches and prayer methods in the Ignatian tradition.
What is God’s Will?
