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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 25th, 2011
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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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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June 15th, 2011
Give yourself the gift of time with no goals -- on retreat, on vacation and at home
Our new level of connectedness is a wonderful thing -- perhaps the greatest blessing technology has brought us. But it has created a new problem. In this hyper-connected world, time in which you can do ...
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June 2nd, 2011
Reviving an abstinence tradition that never really went away
A few weeks ago, when the bishops of England and Wales decided to reestablish the practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays, I had been thinking about the issue already after seeing friends struggle with ...
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May 26th, 2011
Spending time outside is nurturing for you spiritually and physically
Making sure to fit nature into my life, and encouraging others to do to the same, is a passion of mine. As a writer, it's easy enough to stay holed up indoors in a room ...
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May 4th, 2011
A look at the responses to bin Laden's death
I was going to stay quiet on the whole issue of the public reaction to bin Laden's killing, but after an hour or so of ...
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April 20th, 2011
An Easter meditation
I always go to the Easter Vigil. I don't do it out of duty; I do it out of love. My own baptism happened at ...
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March 25th, 2011
Go easy on yourself this Lent
I broke my Lenten commitment on day one this year. 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 ...
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March 9th, 2011
A serious challenge
In our Fast Pray Give calendar, Busted Halo has great suggestions for how to broaden the fasting concept during this season. But if you struggle with an addiction, I want you to consider taking it ...
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