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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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February 25th, 2011
A look at the discussion about lying sparked by the Lila Rose videos
An interesting thing has happened because of the debate over Lila Rose's tactics in going after Planned Parenthood. A serious discussion has erupted across the ...
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February 10th, 2011
Helpful tool or digital distraction?
As Ginny Moyer's recent article here on e-readers and the reader responses showed so eloquently, you're either comfortable with digital replacements for technologies or ...
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January 27th, 2011
Facing questions of direction and purpose
The other day, I was reading a biography of Fr. Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulists, and it was describing the American challenge into which ...
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January 10th, 2011
Walter Parker (1939 - 2010)
When my neighbor Walter Parker passed away in October, I knew the following: he was one of the sweetest people I'd ever met; he spent ...
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December 26th, 2010
They block us from our full potential -- are you willing to let go of yours?
In my recent interview about the spirituality of being on time, I talked about the fact that the spiritual answer is not just to ...
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November 29th, 2010
A daily review can help you stay on the path
It's remarkable (though not really) how easily we can forget the emotionally charged things that happen in a day. The problem is that if we ...
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October 17th, 2010
Letting go of the desire to be God's enforcer
Recently, I sat next to a woman on the long bus rise to the country who spent an hour on the phone tracking down the ...
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September 26th, 2010
A simple prayer with a powerful message
"God, grant me the serenity..." You've probably heard the Serenity Prayer, whether while attending a 12-Step meeting as a member or guest, or from watching ...
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September 7th, 2010
Get to know the Word of God
The other day I was reading in Acts 8 about Philip the Evangelist, my namesake, along with some study bible commentary on his history. Even ...
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August 22nd, 2010
Phil Fox Rose responds to readers’ questions and comments sparked by his column about gossip
My last column, about gossip, seems to have struck a nerve and inspired a lot of discussion. Since I assume that for every reader ...
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July 25th, 2010
Can the concept of affirmations be reconciled with radical honesty?
A reader, Janice J. Holladay, LPC, raised a great point the other day after reading my old column on radical honesty. She had just ...
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July 6th, 2010
Currents tapes a segment with Busted Halo columnist Phil Fox Rose's Centering Prayer group in New York
Watch the video from when Currents visited the Centering Prayer group facilitated by Busted Halo columnist Phil Fox Rose, then read on for helpful tips about Centeering Prayer and meditation.
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June 21st, 2010
Deepening your personal relationship with God through conversational prayer
I had always been fine with the "God is everything" and "There is that of God in each of us" kinds of conceptions of God, but I was finding it hard to turn my will ...
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June 7th, 2010
Protect the silence in your day and consider a silent retreat this summer
"Words are very
Unnecessary."
— Depeche Mode
There is not enough silence in the world. More than ever before, daily life consists of a near-constant bombardment of noise and messaging.
When I am introducing people to Centering Prayer ...
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May 24th, 2010
Nourishing your soul with regular creative outings
In my column a few months back about nonnegotiables, I talked about Julia Cameron's concept from The Artist's Way of the "artist date" — where you make a playdate with yourself to do something ...
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