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In my autobiography I called for “a preferential option for the young” to be a value alongside that of a “preferential option for the poor.” Not
In our recent daily meditations, we have been praising and therefore thanking Earth and Air, Fire and Water. As Thomas Berry put it in a recent
We are grieving the loss of still more young life at the hands of a young, 22-year-old, killer. Politicians’ hands are bloody when their rhetoric
We have been meditating on the gift that our Earth and Air and human existence is, a 13.8 billion year gift. Now, closer to home, we
In our recent daily meditations, we have been reflecting on Praise as in Rabbi Heschel’s observation that “praise precedes faith.” We have addressed the joy
Speaking of festivity and celebration, I am moved by Yeats’ simple poem: We must laugh and we must sing, We are blessed by everything Everything
It was my pleasure this past week to participate in the “Festival of Faiths” in Louisville, Kentucky. This annual event has been going on for 26
Wonders—and questions–about Air abound. We are learning to praise Air and not take it for granted. Science tells us that “we live inside a precariously thin
We are meditating on that interior experience we call praise, and its opposite which is essentially taking for granted or not noticing. There is so much
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel instructs us that “Praise precedes faith.” To practice faith—any faith tradition—we need to bring the experience of praise to the table. That is
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