The Problem of Pain
How can one find God in the tremendous grief and loneliness of pain and suffering? “Spirituality is always eventually about what you do with your pain,” says Richard Rohr.
Thin Places
Each day, Erin and her patients encounter the thin places where heaven and earth touch.
A Lenten Challenge from Buddhism
Buddhism’s Lenten challenge for us.
Paris and the Unimaginable: Listening in Silence to the God of Life
“Perhaps we are being called to remain with these suffering people, in silence, with no words, allowing the spirit of the God of abundant life to move within each of us.”
God the Discomforter
What bothers you? Discomforts you? In the suffering and pain of the world, God is pushing us to action.
God in the Greyhounds
Looking at the generally simple life of animals can bring us humans down to earth.
Armed Love (When “There’s No Vacation from Vocation”)
Armed love is a fighting love that embraces the struggle, sacrifice, and self-donation that Christian discipleship demands.
Artists of the 15th Station
The tremendous suffering in El Salvador reveals something of Christ’s suffering and death, but it is an unfinished story. We wait for the 15th Station of the Cross: The Resurrection.
The “As Yourself” Part of the Commandment to Love Your Neighbor
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and […]
