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By Wintery Light

Maybe it’s this long winter intersecting with Lent.  Maybe it’s just the personal season I’m in.  Or maybe it’s the combination of bitter cold and lingering

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I Can’t Call Myself…

Then I said, “That’s why I can’t call myself a human being anymore!” The conversation had been about impoverished parents selling their children into the

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God on the Brain

Over the weekend I heard Dr. Andrew Newberg speak; he’s a neuroscientist who researches the effects of religious experience on our brains. Newberg coined the

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Realism

by Gregory Anderson Love The symbols of the world’s religions suggest beauty, light, and hope. A six-pointed star. The Buddha, sitting in serene enlightenment, eyes

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At the Mineralogical Museum

“I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.” — Ezekiel 11:19 Hardness has advantages. I think of

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David’s Rage

I have been accustomed to call this book, I think not inappropriately, “An Anatomy of all the Parts of the Soul”; for there is not an

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Happy New Year!

Happy Lunar New Year! You may also know this day as Chinese New Year, or—especially if you are Chinese—simply, New Year. But in fact, various

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Freedom in Dust

Ash Wednesday is one of my favorite days. I welcome Ash Wednesday every year because it feels like a deep breath of solemn honesty. This

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