A Gift Half Understood
But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint – No occupation either, but something given And taken, in a lifetime’s […]
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Infectious Motivation
Around 362 A.D., at some fancy palace dressed in marble, Emperor Julian was fuming. Julian was the last of Rome’s pagan emperors, who led one last effort to revive pagan […]
Spiritualities of Money
Life’s treasures come from someone who shed his riches for us, someone who does not charge interest if we can’t pay him back, nor looks at our portfolio before investing all that he has into us;
The Death of Death
With words that inspired a generation – and that animated a core moment of the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics – the Beatles’ most enduring song set people’s hearts aglow with […]
A Life Well Lived
The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C died on Thursday, February 26, at the age of 97. Fr. Ted, as he was known, served as the president of the University of Notre […]
Christ Have Mercy
A while back I was talking over coffee with a young man who had spent several months studying primate social behaviour in Africa. I asked him what, if anything, had […]
For Christ’s Sake?!
Monday is my rest day and one of the things I usually do at some point in the day is walk the dog and listen to a sermon on my iPod. I […]
Rules… or Ruler…
Rules. Rules. Rules. One of the most common complaints about Christianity is that it is merely a pile of rules. These rules are sometimes ones about what you should do […]
The History-Turning Paradox
Bethlehem is emphatically a place where extremes meet. A mass of literature, which increases and will never end, has repeated and rung the changes on this single paradox; that the […]
Burn a Koran Day
Christians have done wrong, stupid, and shameful things.
Wondering Fair 