The only way one can speak of the horrendous situation in the world today is if wisdom is stirring in human heart, and not just surging darkness. Otherwise, what’s the…
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Christianity
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Having attended compulsory Mass, in Latin no less, six days a week in elementary and junior high school, I learned a thing or two about guilt. By my later teens…
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Though I’m not a Buddhist, Buddhist philosophy and poetry (as opposed to the arcane intricacies of various Buddhist traditions) speak to me. The quieting and emptying of the mind and…
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Someone said to me recently, “When will we not feel urgency?” There is something plaintive, and slightly self-pitying in that question.
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It’s fitting at Christmas, when the West celebrates the birth of Jesus, to reflect on the full flower of his teachings. This statement is apropos: “Truly I tell you, unless…
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The pristinely clear and cold stream flows by at my feet, its brown and reddish stones burnished by the fresh current and glistening in the sunlight. A woodland hawk soars…
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If the New Testament parable is true, Jesus didn’t understand what went wrong, and cried out on the cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
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In the Denzel Washington movie, “Fallen,” evil spreads without resistance by the merest touch through people, like electricity through copper wire.