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Voices
Voices — the latest columns and blog posts
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May 24th, 2012
The beginning of Acts 2 reads like a breathless passage from a Hollywood screenplay:
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in ...
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May 22nd, 2012
The trail marker was ambiguous. I thought it pointed to the mowed path off to our right. My new friend Michel thought it meant we ...
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May 17th, 2012
Rémy and I placed our orders for paella at a cafe on the square in Pamplona. It had been a long day walking ...
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May 17th, 2012
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are faithful men who don’t shy away from talking about their beliefs. What does this mean for American religion?
President Barack Obama writes eloquently about his faith journey in The Audacity of Hope, describing Easter and Christmas visits to church, Chinese New Years ...
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May 14th, 2012
Rocks are not the first things I’d think to bring on a 480-mile pilgrimage walk across northern Spain. Hiking shoes, dry-wicking shirts, sunscreen: yes. But ...
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May 11th, 2012
Why would a woman with serious doubts about her Catholic faith embark on a 480-mile pilgrimage trail across northern Spain? Maybe I'll know by the ...
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May 10th, 2012
Why we do it and the harm it does
Gossip seems like the main form of entertainment these days. We're bombarded with the ups and downs, the personal embarrassments, of entertainers, politicians, and a ...
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May 3rd, 2012
Living in Washington, D.C., the loud buzz of helicopters is a standard piece of the city’s soundscape, blending in with the traffic and sirens that ...
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May 1st, 2012
Since I was a kid, I have been in love with Dr. Seuss. His writings are so prophetic and contain such simple but powerful social ...
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April 26th, 2012
In preparing to give a presentation on the structures of faith communities, I was just reading 1 Corinthians 12-14. You may, like me, be familiar with ...
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April 19th, 2012
When he was running for president in 2007, Gov. Mitt Romney ...
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April 18th, 2012
Spoiler Alert: This post assumes you have read The Hunger Games series and gives away parts of the story.
I totally jumped on The Hunger ...
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April 12th, 2012
One of the most popular columns I’ve ever written is about struggling with being on time. It led to a TV interview and ...
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April 11th, 2012
One day Brandon and I made up our minds to run a marathon. If you knew us, this decision would have sent you into laughing hysterics because we are both the most un-athletic people we ...
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April 9th, 2012
Easter is more than just a single day -- it's 50! Fr. Dave Dwyer, CSP, and Fr. Larry Rice, CSP, discuss the difference between the ...
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April 5th, 2012
Remembering the poor and marginalized when we're crunching numbers
Ron Swanson, the man’s man parks director played by Nick Offerman on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” is a libertarian who believes “child labor laws are ruining this country.” He describes government as “a greedy piglet ...
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April 5th, 2012
As many of you know, I hail for the great state of New Jersey. And when you grow up in the Garden State, there is a rich assortment of personalities that have shaped the culture ...
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April 2nd, 2012
Every year, I bring hot cross buns to an Easter brunch gathering of family and friends. Sharing food has always been sacred to me, all the ...
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March 29th, 2012
I wasn't going to write about The Hunger Games movie – I'm a huge fan of the books and had no advance screening, so I just ...
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March 27th, 2012
I come from a family that shows its love through gift giving. I think this stems from La Lupe. She raised eight kids on ...
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