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Which Christ Do You Follow?
When the missionary E. Stanley Jones met with Gandhi he asked him, “Mr. Gandhi, though you quote the words of Christ often, why is that...
Great Song Of Creation
“The Franciscan understanding of the individual is situated in a rich network of relations. It perceives not an isolated person, but an...
Offer God Your Imperfections
It is through our broken, vulnerable, mortal ways of being that the healing power of the eternal God becomes visible to us. We are...
We Pray in the Context of Grace
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Our primary task in solitude, therefore, is not to...
Let God Love You the Way God Wants!
I read the following meditation by Henri Nouwen and it reminded me of a meeting I had back in the 70’s, when I was on retreat at Mt. St....
Love casts out fear.
In an email to a friend, I wrote that I thought, “We have made God a tyrant”. I was talking about how the Church can lay so many burdens...
Simplicity: Openness and Receptivity
"Despite many differing views of Jesus’ life and teaching, we can say confidently that Jesus was a poor man who fully embraced life with...
Simplicity: Embracing Enoughness
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. —Lao Tzu "Most of us have grown up with a capitalist worldview which...
Simplicity: Radical Simplicity
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducee's, they gathered together, and one of them [a scholar of the law] tested him...
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