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In search of a better life

Friday, 26 August 2011 00:00

I have a friend who likes to say that everyone has faith … in something. He means that everyone is putting their trust in something — or many things — to bring happiness in security. It may be money, a career, a relationship, beauty, popularity or God — or a combination of these things.

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A canopy under which to pray

Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:27

Do we ever really understand or master prayer? Yes and no. When we try to pray, sometimes we walk on water and sometimes we sink like a stone. Sometimes we have a deep sense of God's reality and sometimes we can't even imagine that God exists.

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Not bracketing the essentials during our moral battles

Friday, 19 August 2011 00:00

Today, both within society and the churches, we are finding it ever more difficult to resolve our differences because our conversations are shot-through with non-civility, name-calling, character-assassination, and disrespect.

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A prophetic mantra about the poor

Wednesday, 10 August 2011 11:58

Nobody gets to heaven without a letter of reference from the poor! That's a quote attributed to James Forbes, an interdenominational pastor in New York City, and it wonderfully captures something that the ancient prophets of Israel underlined many centuries ago.

The great prophets of Israel had coined this mantra: The quality of your faith will be judged by the quality of justice in the land. And the quality of justice in the land will always be judged by how "widows, orphans and strangers" are faring while you are alive.

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Struggling to understand suicide

Friday, 05 August 2011 09:01

Recently a friend attended the funeral of a man who had taken his own life. At the end of the service the deceased man's brother spoke to the congregation. After highlighting his brother's generosity and sensitivity and sharing some anecdotes that helped celebrate his life he went on to say something about the manner of his death. Here, in effect, are his words:

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Papal intentions for May: That administrators of justice may act always with integrity and right conscience; That seminaries, especially those of mission churches, may form pastors after the Heart of Christ, fully dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel.