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It seems like the popular imagination persists in thinking of God as, I don’t know what, some sort of noble stoic man in the…
Read MoreIt seems like the popular imagination persists in thinking of God as, I don’t know what, some sort of noble stoic man in the…
Read MorePeople took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly…
Read MoreSamsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It possessed no means of self-defense. Smooth white…
Read MoreThis is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need…
Read MoreHer hands move ceaselessly, gathering, probing, testing. The breast feathers of a stuffed and mounted chickadee are impossibly soft, its beak as sharp as…
Read MoreContemplative obedience and abandonment to the will of God can never mean a cultivated indifference to the natural values implanted by Him in human…
Read MoreA practice of silence can help you to know yourself, others, and God better. How does that happen? One of the most common reasons…
Read MoreI hope whatever senses remain in the years I have left are always attuned to both the gifts and the sufferings of this wonderful,…
Read MoreIn the heated idleness of youth we were all rather inclined to quarrel with the implication of that proverb which says that a rolling…
Read MoreWhy should I have been surprised? Hunters walk the forest without a sound. The hunter, strapped to his rifle, the fox on his feet…
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