Tag: Spirituality
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A Love that Gives Itself as Drink
NATHANIEL MARX — Pope Francis urges us to draw consolation for our wounded hearts from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Dust to Dust Indeed
JILL CRAINSHAW — I used to think we face our mortalities and shortcomings when our foreheads are ash-smeared. This wisdom endures, but this year? I see both the fragility and wonder of human mortality in the eyes and actions of those whose shoe-dust mingles with mine along life’s myriad highways and byways.
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Brief Book Review: Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music
“There is sacred power in pop music, and it is worthy of scholarly attention.”
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Book Review: Prayer Takes Us Home
Lohfink offers thoughtful analysis of what the prayer of petition does to us, how it widens our perception of the needs of others as well as ourselves, how it makes us aware of how helpless we often are.
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Covid Puppies and a Nearly-Full Moon
This pandemic makes us do crazy things. Like go hiking. Grow vegetables. Adopt shelter dogs.
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With Our Eyes on the Sparrows: A Lenten Reflection for Uncertain Days
Sparrows love the camellia bush just outside our back door. The bush bloomed with extraordinary enthusiasm this spring. Maybe the sparrows just can’t get enough of the flowers’ pink lemonade. Whatever the reason, sparrows are bounteous and busy in our backyard. And they are quite fearless too. Just yesterday one of them landed with confidence…
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Lenses for Lent
I still search for these sorts of “lenses” to help me view and understand Lent anew, as I participate in its trinity of disciplines, along with whatever other spiritual or physical discipline I’ve chosen.
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Wild Winter Liturgies
The cedar waxwings arrived yesterday. Waxwings are wonderful, mysterious birds. Here in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, their visits are brief. They come to our backyard for a few hours in February, and then they journey on. If we are lucky, we get to see them. I was a lucky–blessed–to get to be near the waxwings this…
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Rock Us Into Joy
We pray for strength and courage, for wisdom to seek Your ways.