Saturday, October 26, 2013

a true theology of tragedy

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Image , Issue 61 imagejournal.org/page/journal/editorial-statements/the-tragic-sense-of-life Gregory Wolfe The Tragic Sense of Life ...

Catholic without the revelation-but we need to experience grief, and we ought to grieve

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Movie Review of The Counselor www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/october-web-only/counselor.html Alissa Wilkinson, Christianity Today ...
Friday, September 27, 2013

"This tension [between Christ and the church] takes us out of ourselves continuously."

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quotes from Pope Francis: “ The Society of Jesus is an institution in tension,” the pope replied, “always fundamentally in tension. A Jesu...

Discernment - "I am always wary of ... the first thing that comes to my mind"

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quotes from Pope Francis: “Discernment is one of the things that worked inside St. Ignatius. For him it is an instrument of struggle in or...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

to venture into the darkness without losing the way

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quote from Pope Francis: "The church must warm the hearts of men and women. ... "Thorough and adequate formation" is key, ...
Friday, September 20, 2013

God is in every person’s life

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"I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaste...

See everything; turn a blind eye to much; correct a little

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“See everything; turn a blind eye to much; correct a little.” ~ Pope Francis, Sept. 2013

The audacity to question God: An interview with Greg Boyd

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The audacity to question God: An interview with Greg Boyd Jonathan Merritt, Sept 19, 2013 http://jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com/2013/09/...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

With my mother's death all settled happiness . . . disappeared from my life.

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Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis Perhaps the most significant event of his early life was the death of his mother when he was age ...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Possibilities Unlimited

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author unknown: Two salespeople were sent to a faraway, primitive culture to sell shoes. The first emailed back home, "Situation hope...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

We must believe in free will. We have no choice.

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"We must believe in free will. We have no choice." ~ Isaac Singer
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Diana Nyad, age 64, first to finish 110 mile swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage

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"FIND A WAY" http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-diana-nyad-cuba-florida-remarks-20130902,0,1729111.story In the ...

tempo è denaro

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tempo è denaro - time is money
Saturday, August 31, 2013

to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function

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In The Crack-Up, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Words of Wisdom: 8 Famous Quotes to Help You Embrace Fear and Achieve Success

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Anthony Scaramucci Managing Partner at SkyBridge Capital http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130827143745-10667678-words-of-wis...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

simply remember that they love the (bleep) out of you

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USA Today quote: Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY 5:05 p.m. EDT August 24, 2013 http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/08/23/alec-baldw...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

it's all over much too soon

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"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." ~ Woody Allen
Saturday, August 17, 2013

no difference in matters of religion?

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“To hold…that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most ...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

When people heal, they get well

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"When people heal, they get well." ~ hospice patient

God always heals us

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When I was the chaplain for an in-patient hospice unit, I had an interesting conversation with a visitor from a patient's church.  She s...