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On the World as Sacrament
Read more: On the World as SacramentI learned my first psalms in public school. As I recall, they were Psalm 23 and Psalm 100. No one looked funny at the teacher when she introduced the topic and no one objected. First, we didn’t know we were allowed to object, and, second, none of us would have known any reason for not […]
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The Struggle Against The Normal Life
Read more: The Struggle Against The Normal LifeWithin the Christianity of our time, the great spiritual conflict, unknown to almost all, is between a naturalistic/secular world of modernity and the sacramental world of classical Christianity. The first presumes that a literal take on the world is the most accurate. It tends to assume a closed system of cause and effect, ultimately […]
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The Kingdom Within
Read more: The Kingdom WithinIn December of 1849, the Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky, stood waiting his turn for execution, having been found guilty of plotting against the Russian Tsar. At the last minute, under instructions from the Tsar, the sentence was commuted from death, to four years in a Siberian prison. Later that day, Dostoevsky wrote a famous letter […]
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The Confusion of Loves
Read more: The Confusion of LovesAmong the “difficult” sayings of Jesus is this: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Lk 14:26 Of course, the statement is so extreme that it is quickly recognized […]
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The Poor, Debts and Your Enemies – Learning to Forgive
Read more: The Poor, Debts and Your Enemies – Learning to ForgiveHe who has pity on the poor makes a debtor of God. (Prov. 19:17) Jesus told a story about a man with a huge debt. He owed it to his master and was unable to pay. When he was dragged before his master, he begged for mercy. Strangely, the master was so moved by the […]
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Shame and the Modern Identity
Read more: Shame and the Modern IdentityIt is a common definition that the emotion of shame is about “who I am.” It centers in feelings of exposure, unworthiness, and damaged identity. Guilt, they say, is about “what I have done.” There are ways to deal with guilt – but shame, if it is actually a matter of “who I am,” runs […]
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Modernity’s Sacraments
Read more: Modernity’s SacramentsMy newsfeed must be set for “shock.” Never does a day go by that there is no something outlandishly alarming featured as a story, somewhere, illustrating the insane march of modern culture. Much of me would like to think that the problem is in the newsfeed and not in the culture itself. However, on a […]
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You Have One Job – Pray – On Behalf of All and for All
Read more: You Have One Job – Pray – On Behalf of All and for AllThe topics of heaven, hell, purgatory, hades, life-after-death, the judgment, etc., are not among my favorites. There is a particular reason for this: everybody thinks they know more about this than they do and most people assume the Church says more about this than it does. Much of the problem, I think, lies in the […]
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Entering Hell on Pentecost – With Prayer
Read more: Entering Hell on Pentecost – With PrayerPascha (Easter) comes with a great note of joy in the Christian world. Christ is risen from the dead and our hearts rejoice. That joy begins to wane as the days pass. Our lives settle back down to the mundane tasks at hand. After 40 days, the Church marks the Feast of the Ascension, often […]
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The Distraction Delusion – Get Your Hands Dirty
Read more: The Distraction Delusion – Get Your Hands DirtyI recently bought a pickup truck, a twenty-five year-old clunker that runs ok. I paid $600 for it and have been slowly tending to the little fixes that it requires. It’s old enough to lack the computerization that puts vehicles beyond the reach of a shade-tree mechanic. My father and his father were both auto […]
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Alan, I was deeply impressed by Friedman’s response – it was refreshing.