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A fine article in the Washington Post this weekend by Christine Emba explored the cause of the American gun fetish. In America today there are about 393 million
We are meditating on holiness in our time and what the signs are that reveal it. And Dr. King’s message that we must love something more
We are considering how Courage, like Joy, is one of the signs of holiness in our time. In yesterday’s meditation, Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us
We are meditating together on the meaning of holiness and signs of holiness in our times. This because we are also asking how best to combat
For several weeks we have been dealing with the theme of Holiness and how Joy, in a time of cynicism and despair like ours, is
We are talking about Joy in the context of Evil and its remedies, one of which, in Rabbi Heschel’s understanding, is holiness. But holiness, I
Eckhart talks about joy and justice frequently. First, we render Divinity joyful by our work for justice. When our “work is done through justice and results in
We are meditating on touching our Joy in spite of darkness and times of acedia. I offer a second concrete story here. One Fall semester I
Yesterday I responded to a letter from a psychologist who did not like my naming acedia and depression as a spiritual issue. The suggestion was that
May 1, 2023. Pleasure & Holiness, ContinuedMatthew continues the theme he launched the earlier week, that contrasted the punitive, judgmental God of patriarchy, with a
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