Category: Reflections

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    voluntary poverty

    This comes from an e-mail I wrote last week. I skimmed it to take out personal references but may have missed a couple. Voluntary poverty, as it seems so far,…

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    works and prayer

    We find prayer no less a struggle than did the first disciples, who wearied of their watch. Even our ministry can offer itself as a convincing excuse to be neglectful,…

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    the life you may save

    I read Paul Elie’s The Life You May Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage almost a year ago and found it a very interesting book. That time around,…

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    public school baccalaureates

    The not-so-biblical biblical baccalaureate GetReligion, a blog dealing with religion in media, commented Tuesday on a story out of St. Louis that Lindbergh High School will be having two baccalaureates…

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    the long goodbye

    Note: I try to make this site useful and interesting to the general public but every so often, I just want to have a personal post. This is one such…

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    the socially constructed sex

    Looking at sex and sexuality as simply a socially constructed device is fundamentally flawed. The failure to look beyond that when determining what exactly sex and sexuality is a failure…