Discernment

  • Changed

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    In times of conflict or great disruption, we are always asking ourselves how will we be changed. But the process changes us.

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  • Do I Have a Choice?

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    The one rule about church we had growing up was that we had to go on Sundays. Not that we had to pay attention or like it. We didn’t have to memorize or make public commitments. There was no witnessing or professing our faith. I never saw this as a hurdle or an unreasonable expectation.…

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  • The Impractical Life

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    At some point we have to pick. Some pick at three. I’m a golfer. Or at seventy-three. I’m a priest. We pick a path. A life. Too often, though, we let a life pick us. I always struggled with the question of what I want to be when I grow up. The Peter Pan in me always pushes that…

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  • The Beasts and the Angels

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    How Jesus’s time in the wilderness reminds us of our own journey. So this thing we call The Temptation of Jesus isn’t really about temptation, or about the Tempter or about GOD and the problem of evil at all. It’s about experience, creation, and GOD. It is about living in this world that GOD has…

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