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While living in Belgium, in 1982, Fr. Ron was invited by the Canadian newspaper “Western Catholic Reporter”, to write a feature column. Calling the column, “In Exile”, Fr. Ron is often asked about the meaning behind the title.

“Superficially, I was living abroad and was young enough and full enough of youthful grandiosity to like the feel of being an outsider. When you’re young, it can seem romantic, noble even, to be the one who’s gone from home, missed by your loved ones, seemingly on some heroic journey. Of course you’re only trying to get some university degree, hardly the stuff of heroic journeys; but that was before instant communication and the Internet, when you didn’t fly across the Atlantic every holiday. It was my first time being a long way from home, I was young, alone, restless, and it was nice to luxuriate a bit in that loneliness.

For far more significant reasons, I chose this title because all of us live in exile in a real way. As St. Paul puts it, we see as “through a glass, darkly”, through an enigma, separated always partially from God and each other. We experience some love, some community, some restfulness, but never these in their fullness. Karl Rahner once said “in the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we learn that here, in this life, there is no finished symphony.”

March 24, 2024 - The Passion of Christ as Passivity

March 18, 2024 - Recommending a New Book

March 11, 2024 - Forever Ahead of our Souls

March 4, 2024 - Aging as a Natural Monastery

February 26, 2024 - Reindeer Games

February 19, 2024 - After the Bloom has Left the Rose

February 12, 2024 - Praying the Psalms

February 5, 2024 - The Dark Night as Impasse

January 29, 2024 - Breaking Faith with Each Other

January 22, 2024 - The Spirituality of Eugene de Mazenod

January 15, 2024 - The Law of Gravity and The Holy Spirit

January 8, 2024 - Piety and Humor

December 31, 2023 - My Top Ten Books for 2023

December 25, 2023 - Merry Christmas or Season’s Greetings?

December 18, 2023 - Joseph and the Christmas Story

December 11, 2023 - Lighting an Advent Candle

December 4, 2023 - Our Over-Complex, Tortured Selves

November 27, 2023 - Richard “Rick” Gaillardetz – RIP

November 20, 2023 - The Pew and the Academy

November 13, 2023 - Helplessness as Fruitful

November 6, 2023 - Love Beyond Death

October 30, 2023 - The Power of Words

October 23, 2023 - Bad Thoughts

October 16, 2023 - A Subtler Kind of Poverty

October 9, 2023 - Our Lifestyle and Our Over-Strained Planet

October 3, 2023 - Our Deepest Loneliness

September 25, 2023 - Surrendering to Love

September 18, 2023 - A Single Line Says it All!

September 11, 2023 - Hypocrisy’s Two Faces

September 4, 2023 - Divine Permission for Human Fatigue

August 28, 2023 - Giving Up on Fear

August 21, 2023 - Unfinished Relationships

August 14, 2023 - What Will Heaven Be Like?

August 7, 2023 - The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency

July 31, 2023 - It Comes and it Goes

July 24, 2023 - Private Integrity

July 17, 2023 - Praying for Both – The Weak and the Strong

July 10, 2023 - Relating to Both Jesus and Christ

July 3, 2023 - No Lasting City

June 26, 2023 - The Therapy of a Public Life

June 19, 2023 - Post-Sophistication

June 12, 2023 - The Taste of Banter and Wine

June 5, 2023 - Blessing Others as the Endgame of Sexuality

May 29, 2023 - Wonder Has Left the Building

May 22, 2023 - Praying as a Christian

May 15, 2023 - On Not Being Defensive

May 8, 2023 - Quiet Prophecy

May 1, 2023 - Of Innocence, Purity and Chastity

April 24, 2023 - Generous Orthodoxy

April 17, 2023 - What Really is Despair?

April 10, 2023 - Struggling to Give Birth to Hope

April 3, 2023 - Easter Light

March 27, 2023 - Choosing our own Storm

March 20, 2023 - Binding and Loosing

March 13, 2023 - Losing a Loved One to Suicide

March 6, 2023 - Waiting for the Angel to Come

February 27, 2023 - A Requiem for an Older Brother

February 20, 2023 - Lost Innocence

February 13, 2023 - A Lesson from the Misfit

February 6, 2023 - Our Over-Burdened Planet

January 30, 2023 - To Fall in Love

January 23, 2023 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow

January 16, 2023 - How Serious is Laughter?

January 9, 2023 - The One and the Many – Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations

January 2, 2023 - The Anthropological Function of Gossip

December 26, 2022 - My Top 10 Books for 2022

December 19, 2022 - Defying Darkness with Christmas Lights

December 12, 2022 - Staring into the Light

December 5, 2022 - Jesus’ Dysfunctional Ancestry 

November 28, 2022 - God’s Anger – And our Feelings of Guilt and Shame

November 21, 2022 - You Have Less Love in You Now Than When You Were Young

November 14, 2022 - In Exile – Marking an Anniversary

November 7, 2022 - Can Anything Good Come from Okarche Oklahoma?

October 31, 2022 - Workaholism and Greed

October 24, 2022 - Risking God’s Mercy

October 17, 2022 - Celebrating Fifty Years of Ordination

October 10, 2022 - How to Pray When We Don’t Feel Like It

October 3, 2022 - Writing Your Own Obituary

September 26, 2022 - Dying Alone in the Desert

September 19, 2022 - On Being Jealous of God’s Generosity

September 12, 2022 - Our Real Demons

September 5, 2022 - A Biblical Formula for Forgiveness

August 29, 2022 - The Magnificat

August 22, 2022 - Seeing What Lies Near Our Doorsteps

August 15, 2022 - One God, One Guidance System, and One Road for Us All

August 8, 2022 - Making a Recessive Journey

August 1, 2022 - Disarmed and Dangerous

July 25, 2022 - Why is There Something Instead of Nothing?

July 18, 2022 - The Temptations of the Good Person

July 11, 2022 - Coping with our own Souls

July 4, 2022 - Our Fellow Believers – Friends not Foes

June 27, 2022 - Cheap Grace

June 20, 2022 - Suicide and Our Misunderstandings

June 13, 2022 - Women, Inequality, and Feminism

June 6, 2022 - God’s Sense of Humor

May 30, 2022 - What’s in a Farewell?

May 23, 2022 - Naming the Present Moment – Some Metaphors to Digest

May 16, 2022 - Love, Not Excuses, Moves Things Forward

May 9, 2022 - Spirituality – A Place Where All Believers Can Come Together

May 2, 2022 - Managing an Ascension

April 25, 2022 - Fear of Missing Out

April 18, 2022 - Then God Created Light Again

April 11, 2022 - Straining To Hear the Voice of Good Friday

April 4, 2022 - The Secret Hidden from the Amoral

March 28, 2022 - The Therapy of a Public Life

March 21, 2022 - When Did We Lose Basic Respect for Each Other?

March 14, 2022 - Lenten Ashes

March 7, 2022 - Our Best Farewell Gift

February 28, 2022 - Trying Not to Make God Look Bad

February 21, 2022 - The Perfect Ritual

February 14, 2022 - The Death of Chastity in our Culture

February 7, 2022 - When Our World is Falling Apart

January 31, 2022 - Pornography and Chastity

January 24, 2022 - Making Love with the Divine

January 17, 2022 - Theology and Spirituality – Writing about It or Writing It

January 10, 2022 - What We Do in Private

January 3, 2022 - At the Origins of our Universe – Jesus and the Big Bang

December 27, 2021 - My Top 10 Books for 2021

December 20, 2021 - No Room in the Inn

December 13, 2021 - Listening to Our Souls

December 6, 2021 - Human(Kind) – Ashlee Eiland

November 29, 2021 - Leaving Church

November 22, 2021 - Dealing with Emotional Paralysis

November 15, 2021 - The Notion of a Vocation

November 8, 2021 - Giving Ourselves a Better Story

November 1, 2021 - Binding and Loosing

October 25, 2021 - Beware of Your Inner Circles

October 18, 2021 - Permission to be Sad

October 11, 2021 - Immigration – Then and Now

October 4, 2021 - Do We Have Guardian Angels?

September 27, 2021 - What Ultimately Lies at the Center of Our Attention?

September 20, 2021 - When We Doubt the Power of Prayer

September 13, 2021 - September 11th – Twenty Years Later

September 6, 2021 - Under a Bridge in Austin

August 30, 2021 - Different Ways of Being Spiritual but Not Religious

August 23, 2021 - The Fading of Forgiveness

August 16, 2021 - The Richness of the Eucharist

August 9, 2021 - Complexity and Paradox

August 2, 2021 - Who is Close to God’s Heart?

July 26, 2021 - Can We Prove that God Exists?

July 18, 2021 - Bruised and Wounded – Understanding Suicide

July 12, 2021 - Why Stay in the Church?

July 5, 2021 - What’s Inside the Face of God?

June 28, 2021 - Joy – A Sign of God

June 21, 2021 - What is Love Asking of Me Now?

June 14, 2021 - A Eucharistic Prayer

June 7, 2021 - More Than a House or a Place

May 31, 2021 - Losing the Song in the Singer

May 24, 2021 - The Binding Power of Hatred

May 17, 2021 - Rich Kids Growing Up Without Money – or Understanding

May 10, 2021 - A Saint for Our Time

May 3, 2021 - The Eyes of Love

April 26, 2021 - Our Heart is Stronger than our Wounds

April 19, 2021 - The Origin of Our Conflicts and Differences

April 12, 2021 - Taking Tension out of the Community

April 5, 2021 - The Power of Beauty

March 28, 2021 - The Cosmic Dimension of the Resurrection

March 22, 2021 - It is Healthy to Love your Life

March 15, 2021 - An Unlikely Affinity

March 8, 2021 - Opening Our Secrets to the Light

March 1, 2021 - An Invitation to Something Higher

February 22, 2021 - The Imperialism of the Human Soul

February 15, 2021 - An Honest Prayer

February 8, 2021 - The Triumph of Good Over Evil

February 1, 2021 - Our Unconscious Search for God

January 25, 2021 - God Cannot Tell a Lie

January 18, 2021 - Grieving Death

January 11, 2021 - What is Love Asking of Us Now?

January 4, 2021 - What is Your Practice?

December 28, 2020 - My Top Ten Books for 2020

December 21, 2020 - Christmas as Shattering the Containers of Our Expectations

December 14, 2020 - The Illusion of Invulnerability

December 7, 2020 - From Saint Tarcisius to People Magazine: Our Evolution in Admiration and Imitation

November 30, 2020 - Our Wounds, Our Gifts, and Our Power to Heal Others

November 23, 2020 - An Invitation to Maturity – Weeping Over Jerusalem

November 16, 2020 - Can The Ground Cry Out?

November 9, 2020 - The Law of Gravity and the Holy Spirit

November 2, 2020 - Structure, Ritual, and Habit as Anchoring Love, Prayer and Service

October 26, 2020 - What Kind of House Can You Build for Me?

October 19, 2020 - The Prince of Lies

October 12, 2020 - Pope Francis’ New Encyclical

October 5, 2020 - Spirituality and the Second Half of Life

September 28, 2020 - The Hidden Face of Evil

September 21, 2020 - God is Happy

September 14, 2020 - Moving Beyond Mistakes and Weaknesses

September 7, 2020 - Mystical Experience and Everyday People

August 31, 2020 - The Last Temptation

August 24, 2020 - The Invitation to Courage

August 17, 2020 - Pornography and the Sacred

August 10, 2020 - Suicide and Melancholy

August 3, 2020 - Letting Go of False Fear

July 27, 2020 - On Not Locking Our Doors

July 20, 2020 - Sacred Permission to Feel Human

July 13, 2020 - Some Secrets Worth Knowing

July 6, 2020 - Deeper Things Under the Surface

June 29, 2020 - Praying When We Don’t Know How

June 22, 2020 - Our Deep Failure in Charity

June 15, 2020 - Dignity

June 8, 2020 - A Magnificent Defeat

June 1, 2020 - Some Advice on Prayer from an Old Master

May 25, 2020 - Faithful Friendship

May 18, 2020 - Facing Our Tough Hours

May 11, 2020 - Leaving Peace Behind as Our Farewell Gift

May 4, 2020 - Fever

April 27, 2020 - God and the Principle of Non-Contradiction

April 20, 2020 - Churches as Field Hospitals

April 13, 2020 - Huge Stones and Locked Doors

April 6, 2020 - The Meaning of Jesus’ Death

March 30, 2020 - The Dispelling of an Illusion

March 23, 2020 - Love In The Time of Covid 19

March 16, 2020 - An Alternate Expression of Love and Trust

March 9, 2020 - Judgment Day

March 2, 2020 - Jean Vanier – Revisited

February 24, 2020 - Our Congenital Complexity

February 17, 2020 - Speaking with Authority

February 10, 2020 - On Hallowing Our Diminishments

February 3, 2020 - Magnanimity

January 27, 2020 - On Self-Hatred and Guilt

January 20, 2020 - Inadequacy, Hurt, and Reconciliation

January 13, 2020 - The Little Way

December 30, 2019 - The Best Ten Books That Found Me in 2019

December 16, 2019 - Deep Incarnation – Another Meaning of Christmas

December 9, 2019 - Justice and Charity – Revisited

December 2, 2019 - Anchoring Ourselves within God’s Goodness

November 25, 2019 - What Constitutes Fidelity?

November 18, 2019 - Saints for a New Situation

November 11, 2019 - Living out a Vocation

November 4, 2019 - Faith and Dying

October 28, 2019 - The Frustrating Struggle for Humility

October 21, 2019 - The Grace within Passivity

October 14, 2019 - Grieving as a Spiritual Exercise

October 7, 2019 - The Arrival of Refugees, Old and New

September 30, 2019 - Creating and Holding Space for our Brokenness

September 23, 2019 - Jesus Christ – The Person and the Mystery

September 16, 2019 - Some Counsels on Faith and Religion for our Present Generation

September 9, 2019 - The Scent of Humility

September 2, 2019 - Late Migrations

August 26, 2019 - A Lesson in Aging

August 19, 2019 - Imagining Grace

August 12, 2019 - Intelligence versus Wisdom

August 5, 2019 - Divine Understanding

July 29, 2019 - Our Grandiosity and Our Wounds

July 22, 2019 - What Does it Mean To Be Born Again?

July 15, 2019 - God’s Finger in Our Lives

July 8, 2019 - Needed – Particular Kinds of Saints

July 1, 2019 - An Important New Book

June 24, 2019 - The Loss of Heaven and The Fear of Hell

June 17, 2019 - What Makes for Christian Communion?

June 10, 2019 - Rachel Held Evans, 1981-2019

June 3, 2019 - Faith, Fear and Death

May 26, 2019 - Jean Vanier (1928-2019)

May 20, 2019 - Where is Home?

May 13, 2019 - Language, Symbols, and Self-Understanding

May 6, 2019 - Who Goes to Hell and Who Doesn’t?

April 29, 2019 - Beyond Mysticism

April 22, 2019 - Ascending, Descending, and Just Keeping Steady

April 15, 2019 - And All Manner of Being Shall be Well

April 8, 2019 - Our Own Good Friday

April 1, 2019 - What We Haven’t Got Right About Sex

March 25, 2019 - But Where Are the Others?

March 18, 2019 - Our Struggle for Proper Celebration

March 12, 2019 - Lessons Through Failure

March 4, 2019 - Unfinished Relationships  

February 25, 2019 - Struggling Inside our own Skin

February 18, 2019 - An Honorable Defeat

February 11, 2019 - Celibacy – A Personal Apologia

February 4, 2019 - Ecumenism – The Path Forward

January 28, 2019 - Spirituality and Spiritualities

January 21, 2019 - Snake-bitten …

January 14, 2019 - Wendy Beckett – RIP

January 7, 2019 - Struggling for Sustenance

December 31, 2018 - My Top Ten Books in Spirituality for 2018

December 17, 2018 - The Double Message of Christmas

December 10, 2018 - Outside the City

December 3, 2018 - A Different Kind of Bucket-List

November 26, 2018 - A Lesson in a Parking Lot

November 19, 2018 - Our Lack of Welcome

November 12, 2018 - Dual Citizenship

November 5, 2018 - When is our Life Fulfilled?

October 29, 2018 - A Right Way Of Dying

October 23, 2018 - Faith and Levity

October 15, 2018 - Beyond Criticism and Anger – The Invitation to a Deeper Empathy

October 8, 2018 - Suicide and the Soul

October 1, 2018 - The Search for an Indubitable Truth

September 24, 2018 - What’s in a Name?

September 17, 2018 - Bridging the Unbridgeable Gap

September 10, 2018 - Chastity and Love

September 3, 2018 - An Ode to the Church

August 27, 2018 - How to Respond

August 20, 2018 - Beautiful Stoics

August 13, 2018 - The Power of a Compliment

August 6, 2018 - Why I Believe in God

July 30, 2018 - Standing on New Borders

July 23, 2018 - To the Friends I’ve Known

July 16, 2018 - A Slur that Cuts Deep

July 9, 2018 - Consecrated Celibacy – An Apologia

July 2, 2018 - Real Miracles

June 25, 2018 - The Mary of Scripture and the Mary of Devotions

June 18, 2018 - Mourning

June 11, 2018 - Stirring the Smoldering Ashes of Our Faith

June 4, 2018 - On Being the Beloved Disciple

May 28, 2018 - Mercy, Truth, and Pastoral Practice

May 21, 2018 - On Friendship

May 14, 2018 - On Suicide and Despair

May 7, 2018 - Protest, Sanity, and a Christian Response

April 30, 2018 - Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience in a Secular Age

April 23, 2018 - The Shortcomings of a Digital Immigrant

April 16, 2018 - Moral Outrage

April 9, 2018 - Reasons to Believe in God

April 2, 2018 - When Time Stands Still

March 26, 2018 - Putting God on Trial

March 19, 2018 - Our Need to Pray

March 12, 2018 - The Ups and Downs of Faith

March 5, 2018 - The Passing of a Good Shepherd

February 26, 2018 - Our Ache For Earthly Immortality

February 19, 2018 - Celibacy Revisited

February 12, 2018 - Our Most Common Sin 

February 5, 2018 - Faith and Superstition 

January 29, 2018 - How does God Act in Our World?

January 22, 2018 - Overcoming the Divisions that Divide Us

January 15, 2018 - Can You Lose Your Vocation? 

January 8, 2018 - How Can It All Have a Happy Ending?

January 1, 2018 - My Top Ten Books for 2017

December 22, 2017 - The Christ-Child of the Year

December 18, 2017 - Fear of God as Wisdom

December 11, 2017 - The Real Tragedy of Sin 

December 4, 2017 - Reticence and Secrecy as Virtue

November 27, 2017 - Playing Loose With the Truth

November 20, 2017 - God’s Closeness

November 13, 2017 - A Threat to Our Decency

November 6, 2017 - Paralysis, Exasperation, and Helplessness as Prayer

October 30, 2017 - A Plea for the Soul

October 23, 2017 - Kathleen Dowling Singh, RIP

October 16, 2017 - Close the Distance not the Gate

October 9, 2017 - Language as Opening or Closing Our Minds

October 2, 2017 - Healthy and Unhealthy Fear of God

September 25, 2017 - A Prayer for Stillness

September 18, 2017 - Our Struggle with Riches

September 11, 2017 - God’s Command to Kill the Canaanites

September 4, 2017 - Achievement versus Fruitfulness

August 28, 2017 - Stuck in Traffic 

August 21, 2017 - The Power of Ritual

August 14, 2017 - God Needs Better Press 

August 7, 2017 - Our Utmost in Dealing with Our Faith

July 31, 2017 - Suicide – Redeeming the Memory of a Loved One

July 24, 2017 - Angels and the City 

July 17, 2017 - The Gospel Challenge to Enjoy Our Lives

July 10, 2017 - Understanding Grace more Deeply

July 2, 2017 - Inchoate Desire

June 26, 2017 - To Whom Can We Go? 

June 19, 2017 - Being Good-Hearted is Not Enough

June 12, 2017 - Christianity and Noon-Day Fatigue

June 5, 2017 - The Seamless Garment

May 29, 2017 - Going On, Ahead 

May 22, 2017 - When Does Faith Disappear? 

May 15, 2017 - Coming Full Circle – From Storybooks to Spirituality

May 8, 2017 - Despair as Weakness Rather than Sin

May 1, 2017 - An Extraordinary Book

April 24, 2017 - Becoming a Holy Beggar

April 17, 2017 - Five Hundred Years of Misunderstanding

April 10, 2017 - The Empty Tomb

April 2, 2017 - Good Friday 

March 26, 2017 - Doing Violence in God’s Name

March 19, 2017 - Our Shadow and Our Self-Understanding  

March 13, 2017 - Nothing is Ever Really Ours

March 6, 2017 - The Flavor of God’s Energy 

February 27, 2017 - Of Virtue and Sin 

February 20, 2017 - Of Winners and Losers

February 13, 2017 - Welcoming the Stranger

February 6, 2017 - Embittered Moralizing

January 30, 2017 - God’s Power as Powerlessness 

January 23, 2017 - Acedia and Sabbath

January 16, 2017 - Taking Our Wounds to the Eucharist

January 9, 2017 - Orthodoxy, Sin, and Heresy 

January 2, 2017 - My Favorite Books of 2016

December 19, 2016 - Incarnation – God is with Us

December 12, 2016 - Our Churches as Sanctuaries 

December 5, 2016 - The Martyrdom of Inadequate Self-Expression

November 28, 2016 - The End of the World 

November 21, 2016 - The Dangers in Being a Warrior Prophet

November 14, 2016 - Why Dark Nights of the Soul?

November 7, 2016 - The Real Presence

October 31, 2016 - Our Resistance to Love

October 24, 2016 - Boredom – A Fault within Ourselves

October 17, 2016 - On not Cultivating Restlessness

October 10, 2016 - Contemplative Prayer

October 3, 2016 - The Struggle to not make God our Own Tribal Deity

September 26, 2016 - Software, Moral Formatting, and Living in Sin

September 19, 2016 - Indulgences Revisited

September 12, 2016 - From Paranoia to Metanoia 

September 5, 2016 - Feeding off Life’s Sacred Fire

August 29, 2016 - Utopia, With Limits 

August 22, 2016 - God’s Nature – Exuberance or the Cross?

August 15, 2016 - A Happy Death

August 8, 2016 - Fear

August 1, 2016 - Our Fear of Hell

July 25, 2016 - Suicide and Mental Health 

July 18, 2016 - Angels with Sickles and God’s Fury 

July 11, 2016 - Our Deepest Insecurity 

July 4, 2016 - Struggling with Grandiosity

June 27, 2016 - Us First!

June 20, 2016 - Of Guns and Pacifism 

June 13, 2016 - The Struggle to Love Our Neighbor

June 6, 2016 - Sensitivity and Suffering

May 30, 2016 - Ordinary Goodness and Our Spiritual Journey 

May 23, 2016 - Faith and Fear

May 16, 2016 - Youth Today – Who are They Really?

May 9, 2016 - The Ten Commandments of Mercy  

May 2, 2016 - Daniel Berrigan – RIP

April 25, 2016 - Marking an Anniversary

April 18, 2016 - Loyalty and Patriotism Revisited

April 11, 2016 - Love – A Projection and a Reality 

April 4, 2016 - The Power of Prayer and Ritual inside our Helplessness

March 28, 2016 - The Triumph of Goodness 

March 21, 2016 - The Understanding and Compassion of Good Friday

March 14, 2016 - The Power of Fear

March 7, 2016 - How the Soul Matures 

February 29, 2016 - The Cries of Finitude

February 21, 2016 - Mourning Our Barrenness

February 15, 2016 - God’s Inexhaustibility

February 8, 2016 - On Reading Difficult Passages in Scripture 

February 1, 2016 - A Shirt of Flame 

January 25, 2016 - The Kiss of God on the Soul

January 18, 2016 - On Bowing and Raising Our Heads

January 11, 2016 - Forever Being Ahead Of Our Souls 

January 4, 2016 - Only in Silence 

December 28, 2015 - My Top Books for 2015

December 21, 2015 - The Meaning of Christmas – Connecting the Dots between the Crib and the Cross

December 14, 2015 - Sex and Our Culture 

December 7, 2015 - Sensitive to Community, Beyond Ourselves 

November 30, 2015 - The Hiddenness of God and the Darkness of Faith 

November 23, 2015 - Our Muslim Brothers and Sisters

November 16, 2015 - Lacking the Self-Confidence for Greatness

November 9, 2015 - Faith, Doubt, Dark Nights, and Maturity

November 2, 2015 - The Communion of Saints 

October 26, 2015 - Religion, Secular Thought, and Health and Happiness

October 19, 2015 - Displacing Ego and Narcissism

October 12, 2015 - The Stigma of Suicide

October 5, 2015 - Innocence, Complexity, and Sanctity

September 28, 2015 - Caring for Our Soul

September 21, 2015 - Things Beyond Our Imagination

September 14, 2015 - Our Overstimulated Grandiosity – and Our Impoverished Symbols 

September 7, 2015 - God’s Ineffability – What’s Revealed in Jesus’ Eyes?

August 31, 2015 - Dorothy Day – A Saint for Our Time

August 24, 2015 - Human Nature – Is it Somehow all Wrong?

August 17, 2015 - Political Correctness – Swallowing Hard

August 10, 2015 - A Eucharistic Prayer over an Awakening World

August 3, 2015 - An Obituary for a Suicide

July 27, 2015 - Children of both Heaven and Earth

July 20, 2015 - The Healing Place of Silence

July 13, 2015 - Healing – A Theory

July 6, 2015 - The Value and Power of Ritual 

June 29, 2015 - The God of Our Desires

June 22, 2015 - The Hero-Complex

June 15, 2015 - The Best One can do in the Circumstances 

June 8, 2015 - A Primal Understanding of the Eucharist

June 1, 2015 - The Deepest Secret Inside Wisdom

May 25, 2015 - Inordinate Attachments – Moral Flaw or Struggle with Divine Energy?

May 18, 2015 - Contemporary Writers in Spirituality

May 11, 2015 - Artificial Light

May 4, 2015 - Evolution’s Ultimate Wisdom

April 27, 2015 - Praying for Those Not of This Fold – An Open Letter to Roman Catholic Bishops

April 20, 2015 - Who am I to Judge?

April 13, 2015 - Principles for Interfaith Dialogue and Interfaith Attitudes

April 6, 2015 - Where to Find Resurrection

March 30, 2015 - The Passion of Jesus

March 23, 2015 - Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death

March 16, 2015 - Seeing in a Deeper Way

March 9, 2015 - Going to Heaven – By Good Luck or by God’s Grace?

March 2, 2015 - Fear Masking Itself as Piety

February 23, 2015 - God’s Pleasure in Our Action

February 16, 2015 - Christ and Nature

February 9, 2015 - Our Daydreams

February 2, 2015 - Our Eyes as Windows to Our Souls

January 26, 2015 - The Positive Side of Melancholy

January 19, 2015 - Looking for the One God Inside Our Denominational and Faith Divisions

January 12, 2015 - The Importance of the Interior and Private

January 5, 2015 - Understanding and Appreciating Our Differences

December 29, 2014 - My Top Ten Books for 2014

December 22, 2014 - Being Ready for Christmas

December 15, 2014 - The Visitation – Revisited

December 8, 2014 - Honoring Talent and Grace – Jean Beliveau RIP

December 1, 2014 - Self-Sacrifice and the Eucharist

November 24, 2014 - Two Churches, Two Sacred Places, Two Struggles

November 17, 2014 - Less People Are Going to Church – Whom to Blame?

November 10, 2014 - Spiritual Warfare

November 3, 2014 - Carrying Our Cross

October 27, 2014 - Three Kinds of Spiritualities

October 20, 2014 - The Goddess of Chastity

October 13, 2014 - The Unhappy Cost of Resentment

October 6, 2014 - Sacred Permission to be Human and the Tools to Handle Frustration

September 29, 2014 - Five People Who Helped Give Me Some Self-Understanding

September 22, 2014 - Fatherless at the Depth of Our Being

September 15, 2014 - On How We React to Criticism and Opposition

September 8, 2014 - Our Timidity in the Face of God’s Abundance

September 1, 2014 - May your Kingdom Come, But not Yet

August 25, 2014 - Fearing Our Own Maturity

August 18, 2014 - Ten Secrets to Happiness

August 11, 2014 - Walking on Water and Sinking Like a Stone

August 4, 2014 - The Law of Karma

July 28, 2014 - Searching for the Right Fuel

July 21, 2014 - Suicide – Reclaiming the Memory of Our Loved One

July 14, 2014 - A Visit from the Goddess of Night

July 7, 2014 - Disciples with many Faces

June 30, 2014 - Robert Moore on Human Energy

June 23, 2014 - On Being Perpetually Distracted

June 16, 2014 - On Not Being Stingy With God’s Mercy

June 9, 2014 - The Regrets We Can Live With

June 2, 2014 - Wearied in our Patience

May 26, 2014 - Our Gaze upon the City

May 19, 2014 - Dag Hammarskjold on Sexuality and Desire

May 12, 2014 - Mother’s Day

May 5, 2014 - A Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire, and Soul

April 27, 2014 - Accepting Truth, Whatever its Cloak

April 21, 2014 - God’s Quiet Presence in Our Lives

April 13, 2014 - The Transcript of Our Trial

April 7, 2014 - The Garden of Gethsemane

March 31, 2014 - Our Need to Share Our Riches with the Poor

March 24, 2014 - Groaning Beyond Words – Our Deeper Way of Praying

March 17, 2014 - What Dark Nights Do For Us

March 10, 2014 - Facing Our Maker

March 2, 2014 - The Human Struggle with Sexual Energy

February 23, 2014 - The Real Challenge in Creativity – To Enter the Song

February 16, 2014 - Religious Coinage

February 9, 2014 - Our Pagan Resistance To The Other World

February 2, 2014 - Our Struggle For Empathy And Generativity

January 26, 2014 - Holiness, Wholeness, and Depression

January 19, 2014 - The Imperative for Wholeness inside Christ

January 12, 2014 - The Non-Violence of God

January 5, 2014 - On the Dangers of Defining Ourselves

December 22, 2013 - My Ten Favorite Books of 2013

December 15, 2013 - Christmas – Its Checkered Origins and its Checkered Sequence

December 8, 2013 - Staying Awake

December 1, 2013 - Every Tear Brings the Messiah Closer

November 24, 2013 - Misguided Loyalties

November 13, 2013 - Searching for a Word Filled with Reality

November 10, 2013 - Handling Resentment in Our Lives

November 3, 2013 - Dying into Safe Hands

October 27, 2013 - The Single Life

October 20, 2013 - The Academy and the Pew – A Strained Relationship between Theology and Catechesis

October 13, 2013 - Saint or Sinner?

October 6, 2013 - In His Own Words

September 29, 2013 - A Lesson from the Road

September 22, 2013 - On Not Faking Humility

September 15, 2013 - Disappearing Roots

September 8, 2013 - The Slow, Imperceptible March of Goodness

September 1, 2013 - The Value of Atheists

August 25, 2013 - Have I Been Saved?

August 18, 2013 - Rationalizing Our Anger and Moral Indignations

August 11, 2013 - Embittered Moralizing – An Occupational Hazard for Good, Faithful Persons

August 4, 2013 - Our Need to Give to the Poor

July 28, 2013 - Struggling to Understand Suicide

July 21, 2013 - On Whining and Weeping

July 14, 2013 - Why Faith Feels Like Doubt and Darkness

July 7, 2013 - An Addiction to Comfort

June 30, 2013 - Raissa and Jacques Maritain and the New Evangelization

June 23, 2013 - Contemplative Sound Bytes

June 16, 2013 - Struggling for Our Father’s Blessing

June 9, 2013 - Andrew Greeley – RIP

June 2, 2013 - Always in a Hurry

May 26, 2013 - Ordinary Time

May 19, 2013 - Our Fundamental Option

May 12, 2013 - The Wages of Celibacy

May 5, 2013 - Boldness with God

April 28, 2013 - Guidelines for the Long Haul – Revisited

April 21, 2013 - A Call for Less Self-Protection

April 14, 2013 - Stone Jars and Softer Containers

April 7, 2013 - Struggling with Secularity

March 31, 2013 - Lucky Sevens

March 24, 2013 - The Resurrection as Revealing God as Redeemer, not as Rescuer

March 17, 2013 - Praying In a Crisis

March 10, 2013 - The Major Imperatives within Mature Discipleship

March 3, 2013 - Honoring An Abundant and Prodigal God

February 24, 2013 - Overcoming Anxiety

February 17, 2013 - Anxiety

February 10, 2013 - What Does It Mean To Focus Our Attention On God?

February 3, 2013 - Prayer as Sanity and Balance

January 27, 2013 - Ecumenism – Our Neglected Mandate

January 20, 2013 - The Intelligence Inside of the Aging Process

January 13, 2013 - The Ineffability of God

January 6, 2013 - Prayer As Keeping Us Outside The Great March

December 30, 2012 - My Top Books for 2012

December 23, 2012 - King Herod and the Wise Men – A Christmas Challenge

December 16, 2012 - In Safer Hands than Ours

December 9, 2012 - Marking an Anniversary

December 2, 2012 - Honoring Life’s Complexity

November 25, 2012 - Working Too Hard – It Begins as Virtue and Ends as Escape

November 18, 2012 - Some Light-hearted Thoughts on a Very Heavy Subject

November 11, 2012 - Sexuality – Its Power and Purpose

November 4, 2012 - Purgatory as Seeing Fully for the First Time

October 28, 2012 - Living With Less Fear

October 21, 2012 - Never Grow Weary

October 14, 2012 - Pride in Subtle Forms

October 7, 2012 - Tribalism and Fear: Unworthy of Christianity

September 30, 2012 - Willpower Alone is Not Enough

September 23, 2012 - Laughter as Faith

September 16, 2012 - The Right Answer Alone Is Not Enough

September 9, 2012 - The Three Levels of Christian Discipleship

September 2, 2012 - Of Pharisees, Pots, Bronze Kettles, Liturgical Rubrics, Cups, And Cats

August 26, 2012 - Categorical Imperatives

August 19, 2012 - Our Attitude Towards Wealth

August 12, 2012 - The Ultimate Answer To Violence

August 5, 2012 - In Paradox There Is Virtue

July 29, 2012 - A Lesson in Contingency

July 22, 2012 - Patience With God

July 15, 2012 - Powerful Voices Within

July 8, 2012 - Our Misunderstandings About Suicide

July 1, 2012 - Longing For Solitude

June 24, 2012 - The Mystically-Driven Life

June 17, 2012 - Father’s Day

June 10, 2012 - Moving Beyond Bad Habits

June 3, 2012 - "There’s Always Something!"

May 27, 2012 - A Crack in our Pitcher

May 20, 2012 - Sun, Storms, Wilderness, Deserts, and Spirituality

May 13, 2012 - The New Evangelization

May 6, 2012 - The Power of Powerlessness

April 29, 2012 - An Earthy View of the Communion of Saints

April 22, 2012 - To Live In The Light

April 15, 2012 - The Ten Major Faith Struggles Of Our Age

April 8, 2012 - Seeing Spring and Easter

April 1, 2012 - A Stone’s Throw Away From Everybody

March 25, 2012 - Holy And Unholy Fear

March 18, 2012 - Searching for God Among Many Voices

March 11, 2012 - Sublimation And The Sublime

March 4, 2012 - Consecrated by Circumstance and Need

February 26, 2012 - Porous and Buffered Personalities

February 20, 2012 - Thou Shalt Not Kill!

February 19, 2012 - A Christian Attitude Regarding the Salvation of Non-Christians

February 12, 2012 - In Gratitude

February 5, 2012 - On Mourning and Dancing

January 29, 2012 - Other Sheep Not Of Our Flock

January 22, 2012 - Mosquito Bites

January 15, 2012 - Chastity As Purity Of Heart And Intention

January 8, 2012 - A Haunting Equation

January 1, 2012 - Books That Have Found Me In 2011

December 18, 2011 - Praying So As To See God’s Glory Inside Of Humanity

December 11, 2011 - Prayer as Seeking God’s Guidance

December 4, 2011 - Praying So As Not To Lose Heart

November 28, 2011 - Prayer as Seeking Depth

November 20, 2011 - Empathy for the World

November 13, 2011 - Love Beyond Naiveté and Romance

November 6, 2011 - Loneliness – Its Ultimate Agony

October 23, 2011 - The Catholic Press Loses a Friend

October 16, 2011 - God and Sex

October 3, 2011 - The Preciousness and Joy of a Whole Number

September 25, 2011 - Unconscious Images that Deeply Influence Us

September 18, 2011 - A Sufficient Creed

September 11, 2011 - Some Personal Mini-Creeds

September 4, 2011 - Christ as Cosmic

August 27, 2011 - Feeding Off Life’s Sacred Fire

August 21, 2011 - A Canopy Under Which to Pray

August 14, 2011 - On Not Bracketing the Essentials during our Moral Battles

August 7, 2011 - A Prophetic Mantra about the Poor

July 24, 2011 - Struggling to Understand Suicide

July 17, 2011 - A New Challenge

July 10, 2011 - Things Hidden from the Learned and the Clever

July 3, 2011 - The Internal Battle for our Souls

June 26, 2011 - The Size of our Hearts

June 19, 2011 - Struggling with our Complexity

June 12, 2011 - Meaning and Happiness

June 5, 2011 - Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat

May 29, 2011 - Simplifying our Spiritual Vocabulary

May 22, 2011 - God and Violence

May 15, 2011 - The Other Side of Orthodoxy

May 8, 2011 - Mothers’ Day

May 1, 2011 - The Gift that was Henri Nouwen

April 24, 2011 - The Resurrection as Vindicating Human Fidelity and God’s Silence

April 16, 2011 - The Passion of Jesus According to John

April 10, 2011 - The Unquiet Frontiers of our Lives

April 3, 2011 - The Roots of Forgiveness

March 27, 2011 - Loving our Enemies

March 20, 2011 - A Contemporary Apologetics

March 13, 2011 - Saved by One Man’s Sacrifice

March 11, 2011 - Sublimation And The Sublime

March 6, 2011 - On Blessed and Cursed Consciousness

February 27, 2011 - Following Jesus – According to the Letter or the Spirit?

February 20, 2011 - Building an Ark

February 13, 2011 - Straining for Sabbath amidst the Demands of Phones and Computers

February 6, 2011 - Tormenting the Cat

January 30, 2011 - Some Hymns for Justice

January 23, 2011 - Rolling the Dice on the Gospel

January 15, 2011 - Chastity As Purity Of Heart And Intention

January 2, 2011 - Books That Have Crossed my Path in 2010

December 19, 2010 - The Rich Meaning of Christmas

December 12, 2010 - No Room in the Inn

December 5, 2010 - Longing, Desire, and the Face of God

November 29, 2010 - Virgin Birth

November 21, 2010 - Dealing with Loss, Grief, and Obsessions

November 14, 2010 - Atheism and Belief

November 7, 2010 - Seeking a Confessor

October 31, 2010 - Subtle Forms of Idolatry

October 24, 2010 - On Not Running with the Crowd

October 10, 2010 - Maturity in Relationships and Prayer

October 3, 2010 - Being Stretched by Great Writers

September 26, 2010 - Struggling to be inside the Present Moment

September 19, 2010 - Does God Have Favorites?

September 12, 2010 - How Large is your Heaven?

September 5, 2010 - The Lesson within Loneliness

August 29, 2010 - Piety and Propriety

August 22, 2010 - Spirituality and the Seasons of our Lives

August 15, 2010 - Editing Your Own Life

July 25, 2010 - Love in a Time of Opposition

July 18, 2010 - The Triumph of Appearance

July 4, 2010 - Fragments from some Prophetic Loaves and Fishes

June 27, 2010 - Getting it down to the Essentials

June 20, 2010 - Struggling with my Father’s Blessing

June 13, 2010 - Discerning the Truth

June 6, 2010 - Touching our Loved Ones inside the Body of Christ

May 30, 2010 - The Richness of the Mystery of God

May 9, 2010 - A Meta-Narrative of Consolation

May 2, 2010 - Living with our own Anger

April 25, 2010 - Forgiving our Differences

April 18, 2010 - Science and Religion

April 11, 2010 - Living with Frustration and Tension

March 28, 2010 - The Humiliation of Crucifixion

March 21, 2010 - Tortured Complexity

March 7, 2010 - On Being One with the Saints in Praising God

February 28, 2010 - Taking Pain to the Heart

February 21, 2010 - Turning Inner Chaos into a Peaceful Garden

February 14, 2010 - The Challenge of Accepting Pleasure without Guilt

February 7, 2010 - On Fasting and Praying in Secret

January 24, 2010 - Haiti and the Theodicy Question

January 10, 2010 - Lessons from the Monastic Cell

December 27, 2009 - Good Books That Found Me This Year

December 20, 2009 - Reasons to Celebrate Christmas

December 13, 2009 - Chastity and Christmas

December 6, 2009 - Joseph and Christmas

November 29, 2009 - Prayer with an Infallible Guarantee

November 22, 2009 - A Nun’s Story

November 15, 2009 - Respect for Each Other in a Polarized Community

November 1, 2009 - On Litmus Tests for Christian Discipleship

October 25, 2009 - The Joy of the Groove

October 18, 2009 - In Pursuit of Innocence

October 11, 2009 - The Perils of Safety

October 4, 2009 - Private Integrity

September 27, 2009 - The Eucharist as a Celebration of Everyday Life

September 20, 2009 - God Judges No One

August 30, 2009 - Religious Language as Icon

August 23, 2009 - Love – Illusion and Reality

August 16, 2009 - Too-bruised to be Touched – One of the Causes of Suicide

August 2, 2009 - The Eucharist as a call to Justice

July 26, 2009 - What is the Essence of True Religion?

July 12, 2009 - A Particularly Joyous Wedding

July 5, 2009 - Non-Discriminating Embrace that still Speaks its Truth

June 28, 2009 - When What is Precious is Taken From You

June 14, 2009 - Losing a Prophet

June 7, 2009 - Priestly and Affective Prayer

May 24, 2009 - Mystical Images for Our Religious Quest

May 17, 2009 - The Anatomy of Sacrifice

May 10, 2009 - Creativity as One Answer to Violence

May 3, 2009 - There is a Season for Everything

April 26, 2009 - Facing the Dragon – Confronting Grandiosity in our Lives

April 19, 2009 - The Major Points of Convergence within the Great Spiritual Traditions

April 12, 2009 - Easter as Opening the Doors of Hell

March 29, 2009 - The Church’s Economic-Social Teachings

March 15, 2009 - Congenital Jealousy and a Higher Invitation

March 8, 2009 - Wishful Drinking and Moral Resiliency

March 1, 2009 - Our Struggle in Faith – Between Knowing It Is True and Believing it!

February 22, 2009 - Entering Lent

February 8, 2009 - Fidelity – Our Greatest Gift to Others

February 1, 2009 - The Healing Embrace of the Eucharist

January 25, 2009 - Maturity – Being Cool or Being Vulnerable?

January 18, 2009 - Carrying Our Solitude at a High Level

January 11, 2009 - Our Struggle to Celebrate

January 4, 2009 - Doing the Right Thing Because it is the Right Thing

December 28, 2008 - What have you read lately that’s interesting?

December 21, 2008 - Reflections on a New Year’s Eve

December 7, 2008 - The Checkered Origins of Grace

November 30, 2008 - The Struggle with Terrorism

November 16, 2008 - Ad Usam

November 9, 2008 - Old and New Struggles with the Church

November 2, 2008 - Introverts and Extroverts and the Spiritual Journey

October 26, 2008 - Dark Nights of Faith in Our Lives

October 19, 2008 - Evangelizing the Religious Imagination

October 12, 2008 - Beset By Weakness

October 5, 2008 - Reading the Signs of the Times

September 28, 2008 - Struggling with our Own Inadequacy

September 21, 2008 - On the Shores of Babylon

September 14, 2008 - The Problem of Suffering and Evil

September 7, 2008 - The Struggle to Love

August 31, 2008 - Honesty as Sobriety

August 24, 2008 - The Gospel Unfolding in History

August 17, 2008 - The Heart of a Child

August 10, 2008 - On Cultivating or Not Cultivating Loneliness

August 3, 2008 - Prophecy – Challenge and Comfort

July 27, 2008 - The Pearl of Great Price and its Cost

July 20, 2008 - Our Misconceptions about Suicide

July 6, 2008 - Bread and Wine

June 29, 2008 - Our Innate Pathological Complexity

June 22, 2008 - Some Guidelines for Service

June 15, 2008 - Father’s Day

June 8, 2008 - Chastity And the Enchantment of Life

June 1, 2008 - Our Inner Garment

May 25, 2008 - The Many Faces of the Eucharist

May 18, 2008 - A Saint and Compassion Fatigue

May 11, 2008 - The Secret of a Monk’s Cell

May 4, 2008 - The Mystery of Giving and Receiving Spirit

April 27, 2008 - Hatred and the Gospel

April 20, 2008 - Mystic or Unbeliever

April 13, 2008 - The Kenotic and the Triumphant Christ

April 6, 2008 - The Struggle to Will-the-One-Thing

March 30, 2008 - A Spirituality of Martyrdom

March 23, 2008 - Seeing the Resurrection

March 16, 2008 - A Drama of the Heart – Jesus’ Sacrifice

March 2, 2008 - Inarticulate Loves

February 17, 2008 - The Nature of Faith

February 10, 2008 - Jesus and Justice

February 3, 2008 - Images for Lent

January 27, 2008 - The Domestic and the Monastic

January 20, 2008 - “Blood and Water Poured Out”

January 13, 2008 - What If?

December 30, 2007 - Moral Progress and Regression

December 16, 2007 - An Invitation Inside of Christmas

December 9, 2007 - Advent – A Time to Learn How to Wait

December 2, 2007 - Advent Longing

November 25, 2007 - Different Kinds of Glory

November 18, 2007 - Marking an Anniversary

November 11, 2007 - Finding the Strength to Reach Across Differences

November 4, 2007 - Coping With Tragedy

October 28, 2007 - Our Longing for God’s Justice

October 21, 2007 - The Struggle to Bless

October 14, 2007 - Turning Sixty

October 7, 2007 - David and Goliath

September 30, 2007 - Lost is a Place Too

September 23, 2007 - Restlessness on a Friday Night

September 16, 2007 - A Crisis of Faith or of the Imagination?

September 9, 2007 - Mother Teresa’s Faith

September 2, 2007 - A Conspiracy Against Interiority

August 26, 2007 - The Silence of Life

August 19, 2007 - Our Unfinished Symphony

August 12, 2007 - Understanding Suicide

August 5, 2007 - Songs of Innocence and Experience

July 29, 2007 - Wrestling with God

July 22, 2007 - Everyday Life as Sacrament

July 15, 2007 - Accepting Disappointment in Love

July 8, 2007 - Our Three Temptations

July 1, 2007 - Soul-Chained to Things Beyond Us

June 24, 2007 - Sustaining a Prayer Life

June 17, 2007 - Don’t Worship Your Emotions

June 10, 2007 - Celebrating Life inside the Communion of Saints

June 3, 2007 - Liberals and Conservatives – Their Worst and Their Best

May 27, 2007 - A Higher Court of Things

May 20, 2007 - Measuring Ourselves in Love

May 13, 2007 - Painful Goodbyes and the Ascension

May 6, 2007 - Moral Loneliness

April 29, 2007 - God’s Voice as Invitation

April 22, 2007 - Commandments for Daily Life

April 15, 2007 - Einstein on God and Religion

April 8, 2007 - The Resurrection – The Power of Positive Thinking or the Power of God?

April 1, 2007 - The Cross of Jesus

March 25, 2007 - Overcoming Hypersensitivity

March 11, 2007 - Besotted by Celebrity

March 4, 2007 - Praying When We Don’t Feel Like It

February 25, 2007 - The World As a Phone Booth

February 18, 2007 - Moral Intelligence

February 11, 2007 - The Therapy of a Public Life

February 4, 2007 - The Ninety-Nine and the One

January 28, 2007 - The Language of Silence

January 21, 2007 - The Miracle of Existence

January 14, 2007 - Loneliness and God’s Pleasure

January 7, 2007 - Getting and Not Getting the Secret

January 1, 2007 - Ultimate Consolation

December 17, 2006 - Searching for Bethlehem in the Soul

December 3, 2006 - Growth Through Dark Nights

November 26, 2006 - Looking for Rest Amid the Pressures of Life

November 19, 2006 - Steadying Ourselves in the Storm

November 12, 2006 - Dark Memory

November 5, 2006 - The Communion of Saints

October 29, 2006 - Breathing Emotionally

October 15, 2006 - Some Reflections on the Priesthood

October 1, 2006 - Standing on New Borders – Islam

September 24, 2006 - Caring for Our Hearts

September 17, 2006 - What is True Religion?

September 10, 2006 - The Struggle to Trust

September 3, 2006 - Chastity and Healing

August 27, 2006 - Set Apart or One-With?

August 20, 2006 - Our Real Moral Struggle

August 13, 2006 - Home – The Place from which to Understand

August 6, 2006 - Suicide – The Pain of the Ones Left Behind

July 30, 2006 - Our Need for Confession

July 23, 2006 - Not Our Own Children

July 16, 2006 - Stopping the Haemorrhaging by Touching the Hem of the Garment

July 2, 2006 - In Pursuit of Innocence

June 25, 2006 - Coping with the Divine Fire Within

June 18, 2006 - Cultivating Loneliness

June 4, 2006 - The Sacredness of Work

May 28, 2006 - The Mystery of Presence and Absence in Love

May 21, 2006 - Needed: A New Maturity to Match Our Freedom

May 14, 2006 - Dealing with Hurt and Disappointment

May 7, 2006 - Eucharist as God’s Physical Embrace

April 30, 2006 - A Prodigal God

April 23, 2006 - A Mellow Heart in a Bitter Time

April 16, 2006 - A Voice That Never Dies

April 9, 2006 - Jesus’ Last Words

April 2, 2006 - Mary Under the Cross (6 of 6)

March 26, 2006 - Walking Away Out of Sorrow (5 of 6)

March 19, 2006 - Helping Simon of Cyrene Carry Jesus’ Cross (4 of 6)

March 12, 2006 - Betraying Jesus as Peter Did (3 of 6)

March 5, 2006 - Sweating Blood in the Garden (2 of 6)

February 26, 2006 - Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat (1 of 6)

February 19, 2006 - Love’s Baptismal Robe

February 12, 2006 - What’s Worthwhile is Worth Waiting For

February 5, 2006 - Helping Each Other into Heaven

January 29, 2006 - Deeper Thing Under the Surface

January 22, 2006 - Making the Taboo a Holy Place

January 15, 2006 - Standing Under the Cross

January 9, 2006 - Sin and Sadness

January 1, 2006 - An Immune System within the Body of Christ

December 18, 2005 - Keeping Watch with the Shepherds in Bethlehem

December 11, 2005 - Don’t Worship Your Emotions

December 4, 2005 - Being Blessed by Pagan Friends

November 27, 2005 - Cataclysms of the Heart

November 20, 2005 - The Litmus Test for being Christian

November 13, 2005 - Feeling God in Vulnerability

November 6, 2005 - Reflections on Death

October 30, 2005 - Living With Fear and Timidity

October 23, 2005 - Speaking our Truth from a Deeper Place

October 16, 2005 - Our Struggle For Community

October 9, 2005 - Life’s Key Question

October 2, 2005 - Our Inability to Cast Out Demons

September 25, 2005 - Proofs for the Existence of God

September 18, 2005 - On Being Jealous of God’s Generousity

September 11, 2005 - Acknowledging our own Complexity

September 4, 2005 - On Carrying Ecclesial Tension

August 28, 2005 - Moving to a New Job and a new City

August 21, 2005 - When Feeling Down and Out

August 14, 2005 - From Depression To Delight

August 7, 2005 - Keeping Our Loved Ones Connected To The Body Of Christ

July 31, 2005 - A Lesson From Some Young Missionaries

July 24, 2005 - The Mystical Imagination

July 17, 2005 - The Struggle To Understand Suicide

July 10, 2005 - The Truth Sets Us Free

July 3, 2005 - Second Birth

June 26, 2005 - What The Next Hundred Years Will Bring

June 19, 2005 - Purity

June 12, 2005 - Meeting God Without Fear

June 6, 2005 - Searching for a New Maturity

May 29, 2005 - Supporting Family Values

May 22, 2005 - The Jesus Code – Unravelling The Secret

May 15, 2005 - The Danger Of Riches

May 8, 2005 - The Mystery Of Saying Goodbye

May 1, 2005 - Permission To Be Unhappy

April 25, 2005 - Welcoming A New Pope

April 17, 2005 - Multi-Citizenship – Wide Loyalties

April 10, 2005 - The Descent Into Hell

April 3, 2005 - On The Death Of John Paul II

March 27, 2005 - Midwives of Hope

March 20, 2005 - Tasting The Darkness of Good Friday

March 13, 2005 - Gethsemane – The Place To Give Up Resentment

March 6, 2005 - Gethsemane – The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh Is Weak

February 27, 2005 - Gethsemane – As The Place We Are Put To The Test

February 20, 2005 - Gethsemane – The Place Of Moral Loneliness

February 13, 2005 - Gethsemane – A Place To Learn A Lesson

February 6, 2005 - Gethsemane As Liminal Space

January 30, 2005 - Lost Is A Place Too

January 23, 2005 - “Get Behind Me Satan!”

January 16, 2005 - Honoring Jacques Dupuis

January 9, 2005 - Against An Infinite Horizon

January 2, 2005 - The Inclusive Embrace of Catholicism

December 26, 2004 - The Earthiness of Christmas

December 19, 2004 - Faith Means that God is With Us

December 12, 2004 - Jesus’ Dysfunctional Family Tree

December 5, 2004 - Naming our Restlessness

November 28, 2004 - Advent Hope

November 21, 2004 - Finding our Loved Ones After Their Deaths

November 14, 2004 - Songs of Innocence and Experience

November 7, 2004 - Unspeakable Loneliness

November 4, 2004 - Living with our own Complexities

October 31, 2004 - Carrying Tension

October 24, 2004 - Biblical Anxiety

October 17, 2004 - Failure and the Second Half of Life

October 10, 2004 - Binding and Loosing

October 3, 2004 - Jesus’ Sensitivity

September 19, 2004 - Offering Sanctuary for Sadness

September 12, 2004 - Beauty as God’s Language

September 4, 2004 - The Da Vinci Code

August 29, 2004 - Struggling with Possessiveness

August 22, 2004 - Mourning our Virginity

August 15, 2004 - Conceiving of God – Metaphor and Reality

August 8, 2004 - Irritations and the Spiritual Life

August 1, 2004 - Substance and Appearance

July 26, 2004 - Struggling with Being Blessed

July 25, 2004 - Suicide – The Most Misunderstood of All Deaths

July 18, 2004 - The Mother Tongue

July 11, 2004 - Helping Create a Symphony of Prayer

June 27, 2004 - The Struggle for Sincerity

June 20, 2004 - Providence and the Conspiracy of Accidents

June 6, 2004 - In Our Full Humanity

May 30, 2004 - Conflicting Voices

May 23, 2004 - A Spirituality of the Ascension

May 16, 2004 - The Noonday Devil

May 9, 2004 - A Spirituality of Non-Hurrying

May 2, 2004 - On Becoming Post-Liberal

April 25, 2004 - Setting our Ecclesial Gauges

April 18, 2004 - Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ

April 11, 2004 - Waiting for the Resurrection

April 4, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place of Transformation

March 28, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place to Ready Ourselves for Ordeals

March 21, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – A Place of Prayer

March 14, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place Where Angels Strengthen Us

March 7, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place to Stay Awake

March 1, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Place Where You Suffer as a Lover

February 22, 2004 - The Agony in the Garden – The Special Place of Loneliness

February 15, 2004 - Romantic Imagination with Religion

February 4, 2004 - The Law of Karma

February 1, 2004 - Compassion and Truth

January 25, 2004 - Beyond Labels

January 4, 2004 - Facing Otherness and Differences

December 28, 2003 - Interruptions: Our Real Work

December 21, 2003 - On Not Letting the Sky Wilt

December 7, 2003 - Mary as a Model of Faith

November 30, 2003 - The Mary of Piety

November 23, 2003 - Faith and a Time of Agnosticism

November 16, 2003 - Jesus’ Moral Loneliness

November 9, 2003 - Purgatory Revisited

November 2, 2003 - A Wisdom Born of Pain

October 26, 2003 - An Invitation to a Deeper Virtue

October 19, 2003 - The Value of Praying a Doxology

October 12, 2003 - Conservatism is a Good Place to Start From

October 5, 2003 - Dark Nights of the Soul

September 28, 2003 - The Kenosis of God

September 21, 2003 - Living with Criticism

September 14, 2003 - Coping with Complexity

September 7, 2003 - From Self-Protection to Being Food for the Life of the World

September 1, 2003 - The Width of Our Ecclesial Embrace

August 24, 2003 - Spirituality and the Second Half of Life

August 17, 2003 - The Abuse Scandal as a Dark Night of the Soul

August 10, 2003 - Gospel Challenge

August 3, 2003 - True and False Notions of Freedom

July 27, 2003 - Our Misconceptions about Suicide

July 20, 2003 - Our Struggle with Envy

July 13, 2003 - Reading the Signs of the Times

July 6, 2003 - Our Generations’ Particular Task

June 29, 2003 - Against an Eternal Horizon

June 22, 2003 - Moving Beyond Hurt

June 15, 2003 - From Asking to be Carried to Helping Carry

June 8, 2003 - Falling Asleep out of Sorrow

June 1, 2003 - Reflection on Vocations

May 25, 2003 - Faith’s Darkness

May 18, 2003 - Being Missionary to our own Children

May 11, 2003 - Cassie Bernall – Unlikely Martyr

May 4, 2003 - The Potential and Dangers of Powerlessness

April 27, 2003 - Seize the Moment!

April 20, 2003 - The Beauty of Light and Morality

April 13, 2003 - Forgive Them for they know not what they do!

April 6, 2003 - The Value of Ritual in Sustaining Prayer

March 30, 2003 - Contemplative Prayer

March 23, 2003 - Affective Prayer

March 23, 2003 - Seeing the Resurrection

March 16, 2003 - Priestly Prayer – Prayer for the World

March 9, 2003 - Obstacles to Prayer

March 2, 2003 - Pray Always – Prayer as Lifting Mind and Heart to God

February 23, 2003 - A Challenge from our Born-Again and Devotionally-Oriented Siblings

February 16, 2003 - The Churches and the Social Gospel

February 9, 2003 - In Defense of Mystery

February 2, 2003 - The Loneliness of Leaving Home

January 26, 2003 - Pentecost Happened at a Meeting

January 19, 2003 - Ministering with Authority

January 12, 2003 - The Need to Admire

January 5, 2003 - Perspective on a Scandal

December 29, 2002 - Awakening the Christ-Child

December 22, 2002 - On Being Loved Sinners

December 15, 2002 - A Meditation on Joy

December 8, 2002 - The Promise of Christmas

December 1, 2002 - Lighting Advent Candles

November 24, 2002 - Privileged Communication within the Communion of Saints

November 17, 2002 - Twenty Years In Exile

November 10, 2002 - Turning our Eyes Toward Heaven

November 2, 2002 - The Anthropological Function of Gossip

October 27, 2002 - The Dream of Fewness

October 20, 2002 - Living in a Moral Diaspora

October 13, 2002 - The Eucharist as Touch

October 6, 2002 - Polishing our Stones

September 29, 2002 - Kathleen Norris – An Augustine for our Time

September 22, 2002 - Amazing Grace

September 15, 2002 - Faults of the Parents in the Children

September 8, 2002 - Missionaries to Secularity

September 1, 2002 - The Language of Soul

August 25, 2002 - The Tale of Two Flights

August 18, 2002 - The Illusion of our own Innocence

August 11, 2002 - Praying the Psalms

August 4, 2002 - Energy Meets Wisdom

July 28, 2002 - Three Things for Conservatives to Ponder

July 21, 2002 - Three Things for Liberals to Ponder

July 14, 2002 - Bewailing our Virginity

July 7, 2002 - Suicide – When Someone is too Bruised to be Touched

June 30, 2002 - Taking our Rightful Place with the Scheme of Things

June 23, 2002 - The Right to Call Another to a Vocation

June 16, 2002 - Carrying a Scandal

June 9, 2002 - Moving Beyond Our Little Rule

June 2, 2002 - Giving up our need to be right

May 26, 2002 - Ten Tensions to Carry

May 19, 2002 - From the House of Fear to the House of Love

May 12, 2002 - God’s Gender

May 5, 2002 - Where Faith Resides

April 28, 2002 - On Envying the Amoral

April 21, 2002 - A Rich Tradition of the Heart

April 14, 2002 - On Hearing the Voice that Soothes

April 7, 2002 - The Gaze of Sheer Admiration

March 31, 2002 - God’s Resurrecting Power as Ultimate Truth

March 17, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing Christ’s Descent into Hell

March 10, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing God’s Presence in the Poor

March 3, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing the True Cost of Love

March 2, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing the Inner Life of God

February 24, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing the Passion

February 17, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing God’s Unconditional Love

February 10, 2002 - The Cross as Revealing the Non-Violence of Christ

February 3, 2002 - Loneliness and the Second Half of Life

January 27, 2002 - Sexuality and Creativity

January 20, 2002 - Mourning our Inconsummation

January 13, 2002 - The Empathetic Gaze of God

January 6, 2002 - Coping with the Imago Dei

January 1, 2002 - Commandments for the Long Haul

December 25, 2001 - Giving Birth to God

December 17, 2001 - Bridging the Unbridgeable Gap

December 9, 2001 - Haunting Each Other’s Dreams

December 1, 2001 - Purgatory Revisited

November 25, 2001 - The Cosmic Christ

November 18, 2001 - Wrestling with God

November 11, 2001 - Giving our Deaths to our Loved Ones

November 4, 2001 - Praying for the Dead

October 28, 2001 - In Praise of the Ordinary

October 21, 2001 - The Prayer of Helplessness

October 14, 2001 - A Child Not Fully Grown

October 7, 2001 - Remaining in the Upper Room

September 30, 2001 - God’s Risk…..Our Freedom

September 23, 2001 - Practical Hope

September 16, 2001 - And the Whole World Changed

September 9, 2001 - God Underneath – A Priest’s Diary

September 2, 2001 - Being Born From Above

August 26, 2001 - Receiving our Faith Tradition

August 19, 2001 - A Culture of Amazement

August 12, 2001 - Anxiety as the Opposite of Faith

August 5, 2001 - Real and False Humility

July 29, 2001 - Splitting the Inner Atom

July 22, 2001 - Our Misunderstanding about Suicide

July 15, 2001 - On Naming The Present Moment

July 8, 2001 - On Not Committing the Original Sin

July 3, 2001 - Praying for Pentecost

July 1, 2001 - A Parable of Grace

June 24, 2001 - Moral Loneliness

June 10, 2001 - Finding God in Community

June 1, 2001 - Beyond Ideology

May 20, 2001 - The Mystical Body

May 13, 2001 - The Grace in Creativity

May 6, 2001 - The McVeigh Execution

April 22, 2001 - Praying Lauds and Vespers

April 15, 2001 - Living Beyond our Crucifixions

April 8, 2001 - Eucharist as Vigil

April 1, 2001 - The Eucharist as Washing Each Other’s Feet

March 25, 2001 - The Eucharist as Reconciliation

March 18, 2001 - The Eucharist as Sacrifice

March 11, 2001 - Eucharist as New Manna

March 4, 2001 - The Eucharist as Molding us into Community

February 25, 2001 - Eucharist as God’s Physical Embrace

February 18, 2001 - Love of Enemy as the Text of Orthodoxy

February 11, 2001 - Affective Prayer

February 4, 2001 - The Tension Between Theology and Piety

January 28, 2001 - In Praise of Silence

January 21, 2001 - Carrying Ecclesial Disprivilege

January 14, 2001 - From Maintenance to Missionary

January 7, 2001 - The Domestic Monastery

January 1, 2001 - Commandments for Making Friends

December 17, 2000 - Advent: Curing Fire by Fire

December 10, 2000 - Advent: Gestating Hope into Reality

December 10, 2000 - The Joy of Children as the Prophetic Message of Christmas

December 3, 2000 - Advent: Creating a Space of Chastity

November 26, 2000 - Advent: Preparing for the Sublime

November 19, 2000 - Culpable and Inculpable Ignorance

November 12, 2000 - Weeping in a Valley of Tears

October 29, 2000 - Being Present to God and Life

October 15, 2000 - Risking God’s Mercy

October 8, 2000 - Religious Literacy

October 1, 2000 - The Olympic Games

September 24, 2000 - The Notion of Suicide Revisited

September 17, 2000 - On Not Overreacting to Criticism

September 10, 2000 - Christ’s Face in Today’s Priesthood

September 3, 2000 - Re-Imaging Jesus

August 27, 2000 - The Tyranny of Program

August 20, 2000 - A Spirituality of Parenting

August 13, 2000 - A Not-so-subtle Return to the Survival of the Fittest

August 6, 2000 - Where the Cross is Forever Erected

July 30, 2000 - Suicide – Some Misconceptions

July 23, 2000 - Amazement as Blocking Compassion

July 16, 2000 - Following Jesus – Be ready for some Surprises

July 9, 2000 - Giving up Your Gun

July 2, 2000 - Love’s DNA

June 25, 2000 - The Church in Europe – Lessons to be Learned

June 18, 2000 - On Sex And The Unsurrendered Life

June 11, 2000 - Pagan Beauty

June 4, 2000 - In Praise of Skin

May 28, 2000 - Needed: Saints and Prophets within Secularity

May 21, 2000 - What makes for a practicing Christian?

May 14, 2000 - Learning the Language of Rebirth

May 7, 2000 - When Doing Nothing is Enough

April 23, 2000 - Daily Resurrection

April 16, 2000 - The Tearing of the Temple Veil

April 9, 2000 - The Desert of Gethsemane

April 2, 2000 - The Desert – the place of God’s Closeness

March 19, 2000 - Facing our Demons in the Desert

March 12, 2000 - The Desert: A Place of Preparation

March 5, 2000 - The Ashes of Lent

February 27, 2000 - Post-Modern Nihilism

February 20, 2000 - In Defense of Chastity in a Post-Chaste Culture

February 13, 2000 - Colour and Wisdom in God’s Face

February 6, 2000 - A Lonely Place from which to Pray and Speak

January 30, 2000 - In Defense of Daily Eucharist

January 23, 2000 - The Storm on the Lake

January 8, 2000 - Facing up to the Chaos

January 2, 2000 - The Death of Innocence

December 21, 1999 - Celebrating a New Millennium

December 14, 1999 - The Christmas Symbols

December 12, 1999 - Readying Ourselves For Christmas

December 5, 1999 - A Theology Of Longing And Desire

November 28, 1999 - Two Concepts of Holiness

November 21, 1999 - Descartes’ Children

November 14, 1999 - Praying for the Dead

November 7, 1999 - Biblical Metanoia

October 31, 1999 - Needed: Three New Saints

October 22, 1999 - Our Real Loss of Innocence

October 17, 1999 - Peace To Those Who Enjoy God’s Favour

October 10, 1999 - Satan And The Devil

October 3, 1999 - Critics And Artists

September 26, 1999 - Being In Solidarity With A Mixed World

September 19, 1999 - Three Prophetic Challenges for our Generation

September 12, 1999 - Faith and the Imagination

September 5, 1999 - Powerlessness and Frustration

August 29, 1999 - God’s Unconditional Love

August 22, 1999 - Needed – A Theology of Original Sin

August 15, 1999 - On Not Hiding From God

August 8, 1999 - Annual Thoughts From The Court-Jester

August 1, 1999 - Christ As Wounded

July 25, 1999 - Suicide – Love Through Locked Doors

July 2, 1999 - Our Mystical Centre

June 25, 1999 - The Transforming Power of Beauty

June 20, 1999 - Turning the Other Cheek

June 13, 1999 - Moral Discourse

May 30, 1999 - Choosing A Different Kind Of Heaven

May 23, 1999 - How Jesus Takes Away The Sin Of The World

May 16, 1999 - God Sends The Rich Away Empty!

May 10, 1999 - Celebrating the Jubilee Year

May 2, 1999 - The Power of Helplessness

April 25, 1999 - The Summer of my Discontent

April 18, 1999 - The Least Glamorous of all Sicknesses

April 11, 1999 - The Humiliation of God

March 25, 1999 - Holy Thursday and the Eucharist

March 20, 1999 - Commandments For The Long Haul

March 14, 1999 - Sustaining Family Life Today

March 4, 1999 - Family Life as Sacrament

February 28, 1999 - The Family As A School Of Charity

February 21, 1999 - The Family as Church and Religious Community

February 12, 1999 - The Deconstruction of the Family

February 5, 1999 - Bill Clinton – A Baby-Boomer Parable

January 31, 1999 - Waiting

January 24, 1999 - Divine Providence

January 10, 1999 - Second Naivete

December 27, 1998 - Truth Is Found In Paradox

December 16, 1998 - Chastity’s Challenge

December 14, 1998 - A Child is Born

December 13, 1998 - Waiting for Christmas to Come

December 6, 1998 - The Moral And Spiritual Gain Within Our Generation

November 29, 1998 - The Rejected One As Cornerstone

November 22, 1998 - Life Versus Wisdom

November 16, 1998 - On Naming The Present Moment

November 6, 1998 - Three Conversion Movements

November 1, 1998 - What Is Religion All About?

October 25, 1998 - Bill Gates and Albert Camus

October 16, 1998 - Facing a New Challenge

October 11, 1998 - Our Limited Agnosticism

October 4, 1998 - Transparency and Community

September 26, 1998 - A Christian Attitude Towards the World

September 19, 1998 - Some Global Perspectives

September 13, 1998 - One Spirit – One Source of All

September 3, 1998 - Our Interior Codes

August 29, 1998 - Ideology makes for Strange Judgments

August 22, 1998 - The Poverty and Soul of Lavinia Andrews

August 13, 1998 - Self-Image and the Two Halves of Life

August 6, 1998 - Why Church Attendance is Dropping

July 30, 1998 - Monks Have Secrets Worth Knowing

July 23, 1998 - Shedding Things

July 10, 1998 - Some Principles for Justice

July 5, 1998 - Happiness and Paradox

June 28, 1998 - Tensions within Spirituality

June 17, 1998 - Promise Keepers

June 7, 1998 - Losing a Loved One to Suicide

June 1, 1998 - Church as Larry’s Party

May 28, 1998 - A Mature Sexuality

May 21, 1998 - Faith through Mysticism

May 14, 1998 - Carrying Tension

April 30, 1998 - Baptism As The Conscriptive Rope

April 23, 1998 - A Report From The Jesters Annual Convention

April 19, 1998 - The Importance of Mellowness of Heart

April 13, 1998 - Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us

April 2, 1998 - Resurrection and the Voice of Good Friday

March 26, 1998 - Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Fear of the Lord

March 19, 1998 - Gifts of The Holy Spirit – Piety

March 12, 1998 - Gifts of the Spirit: Fortitude

March 5, 1998 - The Gift of Counsel

February 19, 1998 - The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

February 12, 1998 - The Myth of Redemptive Violence

January 29, 1998 - Choosing Against Happiness

January 21, 1998 - Sacred Violence

January 14, 1998 - The Effects of Pornography

January 9, 1998 - Managing an Ascension

December 19, 1997 - A Crisis Of Imagination

December 14, 1997 - 1998 The Year of the Holy Spirit

December 12, 1997 - The Mysticism of the Crib

December 10, 1997 - Wrestling With God

December 4, 1997 - Longing At The Centre

November 27, 1997 - One of Isaiah’s Visions

November 20, 1997 - Purgative Embrace

November 12, 1997 - Living Beyond Doubt

November 6, 1997 - No Exempt Areas

October 30, 1997 - God as Victim

October 23, 1997 - Some Christian Koans

October 16, 1997 - Dark Memory

October 9, 1997 - On God’s Gender

October 2, 1997 - Chastity: Not Our Virtue

September 25, 1997 - Remembering Mother Teresa

September 18, 1997 - Balancing Action And Contemplation

September 11, 1997 - The Death of a Princess

September 4, 1997 - The Way Of Trust

August 28, 1997 - Prophetic Balance

August 21, 1997 - The Good Samaritan

August 13, 1997 - Heaven’s Language

August 7, 1997 - Ad Usum

July 31, 1997 - The Way Of Surrender

July 17, 1997 - Post-Modernism And Our Children

July 9, 1997 - On Praying The Hours

July 2, 1997 - Children Of Our God – And Of Our Elders

June 26, 1997 - Moving On

June 19, 1997 - The Reality of God

June 12, 1997 - Our Children and the Church

June 4, 1997 - Love Is The Eye

May 29, 1997 - Inculturation – The Present Struggle

May 22, 1997 - Solidarity With The Poor

May 15, 1997 - Social Justice and Pop Icons

May 7, 1997 - Recognizing Him In The Spilling Of The Wine

April 30, 1997 - Overcoming Anger – The Final Spiritual Struggle

April 23, 1997 - Jesus’ Way of Wisdom

April 17, 1997 - A Mother Quivering With Delight

March 23, 1997 - And The Atoms Moved

March 19, 1997 - Bury The Dead

March 13, 1997 - Ransom the Captive

March 5, 1997 - Visit the Sick

February 19, 1997 - Clothe the Naked

February 13, 1997 - Give Drink to the Thirsty

February 12, 1997 - Jesus Before Pilate

February 8, 1997 - Feed the Hungry

February 8, 1997 - Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat

February 2, 1997 - The Corporal Works of Mercy

January 19, 1997 - The Evangelization of Desire

January 15, 1997 - From Gifted Child To Giving Adult

January 8, 1997 - Common Ground

January 3, 1997 - The Court Jester’s New Year’s Advice

December 23, 1996 - Christmas – A Time To Rise Above Gloom

December 18, 1996 - Happiness and Meaning

December 16, 1996 - The Power of a Candle

December 4, 1996 - Advent Longing

November 27, 1996 - Helping To Give Birth To God’s Body

November 18, 1996 - Self-Obsession Robs Us Of Joy

November 13, 1996 - Fear Not You Are Inadequate!

November 5, 1996 - Living with an Unnatural Wound

October 29, 1996 - Christian Perspective

October 23, 1996 - On Jesus and Socrates

October 16, 1996 - Some Gathering Hymns for Social Justice

October 14, 1996 - Recovering Catholics

October 9, 1996 - Henri Nouwen: In Memoriam

September 29, 1996 - The Gentle Powerless Power Of God

September 18, 1996 - An Apologia

September 16, 1996 - Why it’s not Good to be Alone

August 21, 1996 - It Is Not Good To Be Alone

August 14, 1996 - Moral Artists

August 7, 1996 - What Defines A Practicing Catholic?

July 31, 1996 - Listening To Your Widows

July 23, 1996 - The Worst Kind Of Poverty

July 17, 1996 - Dreaming With Others

July 10, 1996 - Secrets of the Kingdom

July 2, 1996 - Beyond Liberal And Conservative

June 12, 1996 - Fidelity Not Success

June 5, 1996 - The Prayer of a College Student

May 22, 1996 - A Lord’s Prayer For Justice

May 15, 1996 - Faults After Initial Conversion

May 8, 1996 - Flowers And The Rich Young Man

April 24, 1996 - Wasn’t It Necessary

April 22, 1996 - A Greed That Poisons The Spirit

April 22, 1996 - Binding And Loosing

April 8, 1996 - Lying Forms the Root of Bitterness

April 2, 1996 - The Resurrection of Christ brings forth Forgiveness

March 27, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Goods: The Tenth Commandment

March 20, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Wife: The Ninth Commandment

March 13, 1996 - On Not Bearing False Witness: The Eighth Commandment

March 6, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Steal: The Seventh Commandment

February 25, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery: The Sixth Commandment

February 20, 1996 - Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Fifth Commandment

February 13, 1996 - Honour Your Father and Mother: The Fourth Commandment

February 5, 1996 - Remember To Keep Holy The Sabbath Day: The Third Commandment

February 1, 1996 - You Shall Not Take The Name Of The Lord In Vain: The Second Commandment

January 27, 1996 - You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me: The First Commandment

January 24, 1996 - Protect Us From All Anxiety

January 17, 1996 - Daily Mass

January 10, 1996 - In Defense of Religion

January 3, 1996 - 1996 Will Be A Good Year If

December 5, 1995 - A Human Saint

December 4, 1995 - The Fire that Shimmers Deep Within Things

November 29, 1995 - The Christ Movement Downwards

November 20, 1995 - It’s a Lot Easier to Take Care of Ourselves

November 6, 1995 - A Church Grieves Its Lost Innocence

November 1, 1995 - The Pharisee And The Publican

October 18, 1995 - Celibacy And Holy Longing

October 15, 1995 - Social Justice Essential to the Gospel

October 12, 1995 - Smiling God Undermines Our Workaholism

October 4, 1995 - Walking With The Alienated

September 27, 1995 - Self-Pity And Care-Giving

September 20, 1995 - Finding Our Loved Ones After Death

September 12, 1995 - Equipped To Handle Frustration

September 6, 1995 - Nuggets to Keep

August 30, 1995 - Shamed In Our Enthusiasm

August 23, 1995 - Appreciative Consciousness

August 16, 1995 - The Treasures of the Church

August 8, 1995 - New Age – A Critical Look

August 2, 1995 - Passing On A Blessing

August 1, 1995 - Initiating Blind Desire

July 26, 1995 - Prophets as Shock Absorbers

July 19, 1995 - A Theologian’s Problems

July 12, 1995 - Chastity is the Key to Everything

June 14, 1995 - Celibacy As Solidarity With The Poor

June 14, 1995 - Gestating Compassion

June 2, 1995 - The Word Made Flesh

May 31, 1995 - Chastity Revisited

May 24, 1995 - A Time for Reconstruction

May 17, 1995 - Safe in God’s Arms

May 7, 1995 - Social Justice: Not An Option

May 3, 1995 - The Wreck Of The Deutschland

May 1, 1995 - No Rut Like My Own!

April 24, 1995 - Choosing Between Two Kinds of Storm

April 19, 1995 - Difficulties In Living The Free Life

April 12, 1995 - I Believe In The Resurrection

April 4, 1995 - By His Stripes We Are Healed

March 28, 1995 - Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat

March 21, 1995 - The Passing of a Shepherd

March 14, 1995 - Two Great gods

March 8, 1995 - Our Children and God’s Love

March 7, 1995 - Flanked By Thieves

February 20, 1995 - Strangers Can Bring God’s Revelation

February 13, 1995 - A Vespers For The World

February 6, 1995 - Say ‘Thank You’ By Enjoying The Gift

January 31, 1995 - Welcoming the Stranger

January 24, 1995 - The Court Jester Goes To The Zoo

January 9, 1995 - New Year’s Resolutions Testify To Faith

December 19, 1994 - Silent Hidden Gestation

December 14, 1994 - God’s Descent into the Secular

November 29, 1994 - Preparing for Christmas

November 23, 1994 - Silent Hidden Gestation

November 16, 1994 - Non-Violence Essential To Moral Living

November 9, 1994 - In Exile

November 2, 1994 - The Communion Of Saints: An Untapped Doctrine

October 19, 1994 - Some Rules for Peace-Making

October 12, 1994 - Is God There In The End?

October 10, 1994 - Demonizing Other People

September 27, 1994 - What Does God Look Like?

September 26, 1994 - Grace and Forgiveness

September 19, 1994 - Questions Without Answers

September 12, 1994 - A Childhood Friend

September 6, 1994 - Blessing As Dying To Give Life

August 31, 1994 - Staying in the Church

August 24, 1994 - Youthful Friendship

August 22, 1994 - Weakness Builds The Soul

August 17, 1994 - Economics and Justice

August 2, 1994 - Taking God Seriously

July 26, 1994 - The Insufficiency of Everything Attainable

July 13, 1994 - Thinking Of Ourselves As Victims

July 4, 1994 - Bound to Christ

July 4, 1994 - Inferiority Builds The Soul

July 2, 1994 - Beyond Peter Pan and Tinkerbell

June 29, 1994 - Sex and Soul

June 27, 1994 - Our Need to Kneel

June 22, 1994 - Weeping With A Wall-Eyed Pike

June 15, 1994 - Liturgical Tips From The Pew

June 7, 1994 - What Shapes A Soul?

June 1, 1994 - Needing Someone to Adore

May 25, 1994 - Thou Shalt Not Betray!

May 16, 1994 - Being for the World

May 2, 1994 - Celestial Marriage Counselling

April 27, 1994 - Blocking Pentecost

April 25, 1994 - Belief in Resurrection

April 20, 1994 - Mourning A Passing

April 18, 1994 - Passion and Purity

April 12, 1994 - Waging Peace

April 6, 1994 - Revirginization Revisited

April 4, 1994 - Bless This House

April 1, 1994 - No Trumpets For Men

March 30, 1994 - I Believe in the Resurrection

March 28, 1994 - Yearly thoughts From The Court Fool!

March 23, 1994 - The Embrace Of Good Friday

March 21, 1994 - Waiting for a Wildflower

March 14, 1994 - The Restless Heart

March 7, 1994 - The New Legalism – The Tyranny Of Programs

February 28, 1994 - Thinking Small

February 21, 1994 - Tenderness And Politics

February 14, 1994 - Rooted In Honesty

February 7, 1994 - Broken and Distributed

January 31, 1994 - The Restless Spirit

January 24, 1994 - Some Of The People

January 17, 1994 - A Church Which Comforts

January 16, 1994 - My Parents Shaped My Soul

January 10, 1994 - Ten New Commandments

December 27, 1993 - David Facing Goliath

December 20, 1993 - Headlong into the Pudding

December 20, 1993 - Headlong Into The Pudding

December 13, 1993 - They Were Moral Lovers

December 6, 1993 - Life’s Incessant Longing

November 29, 1993 - A Sensual Heaven

November 22, 1993 - Blessed By Being Seen

November 15, 1993 - Truth Comes Tainted

November 8, 1993 - A Humbled Heart

November 1, 1993 - Your Dad Only Dies Once

October 25, 1993 - Therapy of Public Life

October 11, 1993 - Truth and Beauty

October 4, 1993 - Sex is a Moral Issue

September 27, 1993 - Of Oranges and Pennies

September 20, 1993 - Kissing the Leper

September 14, 1993 - Sex And Morality

September 6, 1993 - Scapegoating Priests

August 23, 1993 - Ever So Brief A Glory

August 9, 1993 - Humanae Vitae … 25 Years Later

July 21, 1993 - An Honest Anger

July 14, 1993 - Eucharist as God’s Touch

July 5, 1993 - Longing for Innocence

June 28, 1993 - Hungry for Blessing

June 21, 1993 - God Locked Them In!

June 14, 1993 - Ice Cream Vs. Beans

June 7, 1993 - Memories Dispel Depression

May 31, 1993 - The Prodigal Son’s Brother

May 26, 1993 - Religion’s True Birthright

May 17, 1993 - Ordinary Ground is Holy

May 10, 1993 - Truth With Gentleness

May 3, 1993 - Called Out Of Darkness

April 26, 1993 - Love Is Resilient

April 19, 1993 - The Pursuit Of Innocence

April 12, 1993 - A Shallow Compassion

April 5, 1993 - Dying In Order To Live

March 29, 1993 - In Praise Of Fools

March 22, 1993 - Pro-Life Prayer Needs Flesh

March 15, 1993 - God Is The Real Parent

March 8, 1993 - Virtue in Self-sacrifice

March 1, 1993 - An Old Monk’s Question

February 15, 1993 - A Marvellous Symphony

February 8, 1993 - The Polished Stone

February 1, 1993 - The Gender Of God

January 25, 1993 - A Tired, Depressed People

January 14, 1993 - The Power Of The Resurrection

January 11, 1993 - A Thousand Little Things

January 8, 1993 - Resolutions That Last

December 28, 1992 - Signs of a Good Marriage

December 21, 1992 - The Incarnation Means God is in the Ordinary

December 14, 1992 - Reacting to Sinead

December 7, 1992 - We Have Gone Too Far

November 30, 1992 - Drawing Fire From Tradition

November 23, 1992 - Ten Years Of ‘In Exile’

November 16, 1992 - Mourning Incompleteness

November 9, 1992 - Grieving Life’s Inadequacy

November 2, 1992 - Social Justice Revisited

October 26, 1992 - The Spirituality of Eugene de Mazenod

October 19, 1992 - Absent From Our Own Lives

October 12, 1992 - Blessed By Our Roots

October 5, 1992 - Solitude Sends Us Reeling

September 28, 1992 - The Limits Of Love

September 16, 1992 - Non-Selective Tears

September 10, 1992 - Understanding The Desert Of Loneliness

September 7, 1992 - A Frustrated Hunger

August 31, 1992 - Playing In The Sun

July 27, 1992 - Faith Requires Religion

July 18, 1992 - Life Calls For Mourning

July 10, 1992 - The Vale Of Tears

July 6, 1992 - A Role Reversal At Death

June 29, 1992 - Giving Birth Through Death

June 22, 1992 - Living in the Holy Spirit

June 15, 1992 - A Mystic for Today

June 8, 1992 - Chaos And Original Sin

June 1, 1992 - The Traditional Idea Of Love And Marriage – Under Siege

May 25, 1992 - Gratitude the Basic Virtue

May 18, 1992 - A Grieving Church

May 11, 1992 - Justice and Spirituality

May 4, 1992 - Taken Completely by God

April 27, 1992 - Truth and the Resurrection

April 25, 1992 - An Evening With Jim Wallis

April 20, 1992 - Life’s Quest for Service

April 13, 1992 - A Cast of Characters

April 6, 1992 - A Culture of Complaint

March 30, 1992 - Sitting in the Ashes

March 23, 1992 - Another Type Of Icon

March 16, 1992 - The Prayer Of Charity

March 9, 1992 - A Lesson Of Fundamentalism

March 2, 1992 - A Heart With Many Rooms

February 24, 1992 - Let’s Look At Neo-Paganism

February 22, 1992 - Cultivating Loneliness

February 17, 1992 - AIDS In The Body Of Christ

February 10, 1992 - When Love Goes Inarticulate

January 27, 1992 - Anger Can Be Self-Serving

January 20, 1992 - Church Running Out Of Priests

January 13, 1992 - Our Whole World is Holy

January 5, 1992 - The Illusion of Familiarity

December 23, 1991 - Time to Examine Life’s Gifts

December 19, 1991 - Wide Loyalties … The Call of a True Catholicism

December 16, 1991 - How to Give Birth to God

December 10, 1991 - A Christmas Story

November 30, 1991 - Bath in the Essence of Advent

November 24, 1991 - Frustrated Goddesses and Grieving Warriors

November 16, 1991 - Christiane Brusselmans RIP

November 7, 1991 - Family As Idolatry

November 2, 1991 - Providence and the Conspiracy of Accidents

October 27, 1991 - The Sacramentality Of Everyday Life

October 21, 1991 - A Communion with the Saints

October 6, 1991 - Eucharist In The Time Of Insufficient Ministers

September 28, 1991 - Unfinished Symphonies

September 10, 1991 - The Eucharist – Word And Ritual

September 6, 1991 - An Anniversary To Mark

August 31, 1991 - Justice And Anger

August 16, 1991 - Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut

August 11, 1991 - Breaking The Eucharistic Bread

August 4, 1991 - A Child and the Kingdom

July 31, 1991 - Sexuality and Honesty

July 21, 1991 - Finding Rest For Our Souls

July 13, 1991 - Rhetoric Which Divides Community

July 8, 1991 - Infantile Grandiosity and the Image of God

June 10, 1991 - The Eucharist as Sacrament of Reconciliation

June 8, 1991 - Criticism

May 30, 1991 - How Not To Commit The Original Sin

May 27, 1991 - A Hidden Life

May 26, 1991 - Healthy and Unhealthy Fear of Hell

May 6, 1991 - Moral Loneliness

April 15, 1991 - Social Justice – New Knowledge/New Responsibility

April 8, 1991 - A Dark Night Of Spirit

April 1, 1991 - Young In God’s Eyes

March 23, 1991 - The Importance Of The Empty Tomb

March 17, 1991 - Invincible Ignorance and Good Friday

March 11, 1991 - Poetic Imagination

February 28, 1991 - The Interrupted Life

February 18, 1991 - Paschal Imagination

February 10, 1991 - Take Up Your Couch And Walk

February 3, 1991 - Love and our Baptismal Robes

January 27, 1991 - A Prayer for Peace

January 20, 1991 - Reaction to War (First in a two part series)

January 15, 1991 - Blessing And Cursing Life

December 5, 1990 - The Incarnation Honors the Flesh

December 2, 1990 - What is a Father?

November 25, 1990 - Optimism Or Pessimism

November 15, 1990 - An Open Letter from a Restless Pilgrim

November 11, 1990 - Understanding Suicide

November 4, 1990 - Unnoticed Blood

October 28, 1990 - The Miracle Of It All!

October 12, 1990 - A Vocation for the Last Stage of Life

September 29, 1990 - Consolation In Old Prayers

September 20, 1990 - Further Reflections on Catholic Annulments

September 17, 1990 - Beyond Ideology II

September 12, 1990 - Beyond Ideology (1st in a 2-part series)

September 6, 1990 - On Sabbatical

September 3, 1990 - Goods, Gods and Eastern Europe

August 20, 1990 - The Journey Of A Soul

August 15, 1990 - Hesitation and Reserve … Virtue or Timidity?

July 16, 1990 - Interruptions Can Be Our Real Work

June 16, 1990 - Annulments – Catholic Divorce?

June 10, 1990 - Abrasive Rhetoric

May 7, 1990 - Masculine Spirituality

April 29, 1990 - Sex As Sacrament

April 23, 1990 - The Struggle for Wholeness

April 9, 1990 - Prophecy II

March 26, 1990 - Prophecy

March 12, 1990 - Prayer Life Needs Rhythm, Ritual

February 26, 1990 - Won’t Someone Please Stop Me?

February 12, 1990 - We Need A Heart With Many Rooms

January 29, 1990 - Death Washes Things Clean

January 15, 1990 - A Chance to meet the Lynx’s Eye

December 2, 1987 - Single Life Offers Opportunities

December 1, 1987 - Make Space For Christ In Life

November 2, 1987 - A Recipe For Life’s Blender

November 1, 1987 - Taking The Sting Out Of Life

October 2, 1987 - Pagan Saints For Modern Sinners

October 1, 1987 - God Beats Small-Time Blues

September 2, 1987 - Make Your Welcome Hearty

September 1, 1987 - Saying Goodbye Part Of Life

August 1, 1987 - Sitting At A Mystic’s Feet

July 2, 1987 - Choosing Between Sacraments

July 1, 1987 - Leaving God’s Mark

June 1, 1987 - Our Greed Pulls The Trigger

May 2, 1987 - Longing Is Our Spiritual Lot

May 1, 1987 - Staring Chaos In The Face

April 2, 1987 - Saints For Complex People

April 1, 1987 - Easter Arsonists Of The Heart

March 2, 1987 - Keep Your Faith In Balance

March 1, 1987 - Living In Joy Is Hard Work!

February 2, 1987 - Conversion Is Revolution!

February 1, 1987 - When Sinners Rationalize

January 2, 1987 - Signals That Spell Sanctity

January 1, 1987 - The Martyrdom Of Obscurity

December 2, 1986 - Born Into The Ordinary

December 1, 1986 - Like Green Logs In The Fire

November 2, 1986 - Fr. Walgrave, We’ll Miss You

November 1, 1986 - Monasticism And Family Life

October 2, 1986 - Abortion: No Quick Solutions

October 1, 1986 - In Much Better Hands Than Ours

September 2, 1986 - Guidelines For The Long Haul

September 1, 1986 - A Showdown With True Love

August 1, 1986 - Alive With Prophetic Pain

July 2, 1986 - Friendship Is Liberating, Too

July 1, 1986 - Just Too Busy To Bow Down

June 2, 1986 - Dare To Be One In A Thousand

June 1, 1986 - A Life Handcrafted By God

May 2, 1986 - No Salvation In Sexology

May 1, 1986 - Hatred Is Not Always Bad

April 2, 1986 - A String Of Empty Tombs

April 1, 1986 - Love Through Locked Doors

March 2, 1986 - Godlessness and Good Friday

March 1, 1986 - Veronica’s Veil

February 2, 1986 - The ‘Loser’ As Victor

February 1, 1986 - Worshipping In Anguish

January 2, 1986 - Keep Praying For The Dead

January 1, 1986 - Terror And Triumph

December 1, 1985 - Our Savior In The Flesh!

November 1, 1985 - From Grateful to Giving

October 31, 1985 - The Unfinished Symphony

October 1, 1985 - Falling Into God’s Arms

September 30, 1985 - From Fantasy To Fulfilment

September 2, 1985 - More Tantrums Than Tears

September 1, 1985 - Becoming The Real Thing

August 1, 1985 - Whose Kingdom, Lord?

August 1, 1985 - Married To Sacrifice

July 2, 1985 - Our Greed Pulls The Trigger

July 1, 1985 - Closed To Love, Open To Hate

June 3, 1985 - Paschal Mystery: The New You

June 2, 1985 - Paschal Death: Letting Go

June 1, 1985 - Making Room For Compassion

May 31, 1985 - Abortion

May 2, 1985 - Sexuality

May 1, 1985 - Suicide, Despair and Compassion

April 1, 1985 - Mary Magdala’s Easter Prayer

March 2, 1985 - Expressing Our Affection

March 1, 1985 - Jesus Was A Good Loser

February 1, 1985 - Staying Home On A Friday Night

February 1, 1985 - The Eucharist Is An Embrace

January 2, 1985 - Compassion And Abortion

January 1, 1985 - Three Praises Of Fantasy

December 1, 1984 - Incarnation As God With Us

November 2, 1984 - Life Is A Messy Business

November 1, 1984 - People Don’t Break Easily

October 2, 1984 - Keeping Fire In The Eyes

October 1, 1984 - Getting Angry With God

September 10, 1984 - Hope at the time of death

September 2, 1984 - A Diet Of Antiseptics

August 2, 1984 - Symbols Give Us Meaning

July 31, 1984 - Praying Through A Crisis

July 2, 1984 - Passion Is God’s Fire In Us

July 1, 1984 - A Summer Of Centering

June 2, 1984 - A Theologian’s Problems

June 1, 1984 - Remembering As Surgery

May 3, 1984 - Saying ‘Yes’ To Santa Claus

May 2, 1984 - The Real Loss Of Virginity

May 1, 1984 - On Sensible And Stupid Risks

April 2, 1984 - Spring And The Resurrection

April 1, 1984 - On The Road To Emmaus

March 2, 1984 - Splitting The Atom Of Love

March 1, 1984 - Celebrating Our Alphabet

February 15, 1984 - All That Is Truly Masculine

February 3, 1984 - Receiving Truth As A Friend

January 15, 1984 - The Binding of Isaac

January 2, 1984 - Floating Bottles Out To Sea

December 12, 1983 - Disturbing One’s Breakfast

November 29, 1983 - Passing On The Spirit

November 21, 1983 - The Bad Time Comes

October 24, 1983 - Religion, Sex and Suffering

October 17, 1983 - Taming The Bad Dog Within

October 3, 1983 - Christ Still Has Human Flesh

September 26, 1983 - Incarnation Imparts Power

September 12, 1983 - The Scent Of Unseen Roses

August 29, 1983 - The Paradox Of Priesthood

August 15, 1983 - Theologian Hard To Recognize

August 1, 1983 - The Death Of A Soldier

July 18, 1983 - Weakness Leads To Strength

July 4, 1983 - Zorba and Religion

June 13, 1983 - Guilt Thwarts Celebration

June 6, 1983 - Emerging From Stone

May 25, 1983 - Keeping One’s Perspective

May 9, 1983 - Author Tells Merton’s Story

April 11, 1983 - Despair And Resurrection

March 28, 1983 - Eleventh Hour Conversions

March 14, 1983 - Getting in Touch with Hate

February 28, 1983 - Poverty and Transfiguration

February 14, 1983 - Sexual Wholeness Is True Liberation

January 31, 1983 - Resurrection Through Time

December 27, 1982 - The Dark Nights and Human Emotions

December 14, 1982 - Virgin Birth

December 6, 1982 - Spirituality An Erotic Urge

November 29, 1982 - Experience May Lead To Hell

November 15, 1982 - Our Lives Are Lived In Exile