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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 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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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 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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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 15th, 2012
It seems that every year around this time I'm inspired to write about renewal and fresh starts. That's not surprising, of course. The vernal equinox (March 20) is ...
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March 1st, 2012
Go easy on yourself this Lent
I broke my Lenten commitment on day one. On Ash Wednesday, after a difficult day, I trudged right past two people asking for change on my way home, remembering my commitment but in my aggravation ...
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February 22nd, 2012
"What are you giving up for Lent?" is not a question I heard growing up in my atheist home. It’s second nature for most Catholics, though -- to give up some favorite thing (like chocolate ...
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February 2nd, 2012
As the viral video "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus," by Jefferson Bethke, approaches 18 million views, I will add my response ...
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January 19th, 2012
It was all of 13 minutes after midnight on Tuesday night when I went to look up something in Wikipedia... even though I knew the ...
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January 6th, 2012
We are told it is natural to thirst for fulfillment in aligning our life with God's plan for us and to thirst for the kingdom ...
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December 8th, 2011
Many "alternative" gift articles suggest non-gifts -- things like giving to charity in the person's name, or giving service rather than a thing -- but choosing a present specifically for another person, wrapping it playfully ...
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November 22nd, 2011
A helpful tool to encourage a more grateful attitude towards life
This is the last column to run before Thanksgiving, so I want to talk to you about gratitude. I could write a dozen columns about gratitude in various forms; for this column, I'm going to ...
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November 4th, 2011
Dealing with the shortening days and the end of daylight-saving time
Every year, at the beginning of warm weather, I encourage everyone to get out in the sun and experience nature, but it's important ...
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October 7th, 2011
I probably should have had an obit for Steve Jobs ready to run. We had a dry run when he resigned as head of Apple ...
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September 29th, 2011
I often hear people talking about living in the present moment as if it is a struggle, some cosmic ...
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September 15th, 2011
My last column, about waiting patiently for a late bus, provoked some interesting comments and reactions (on the site and directly) that tease out the bigger ...
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August 11th, 2011
You have just enough time left if you act now to join me in the Million PALA Challenge -- a national campaign to get ...
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August 1st, 2011
The pope has made several comments this year concerning vacations, which were highlighted in a piece on the Vatican Radio website. Summer is halfway over already, but ...
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July 14th, 2011
One of the things I notice whenever I spend time on retreat at a monastery (as I did a few weeks ago) is how much ...
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