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Curbing the Aggressive, Capricious, Untrustworthy Intellect

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Curbing the Aggressive, Capricious, Untrustworthy Intellect It’s a heck of a phrase, isn’t it? The adjectives strung together are strident and wholly negative modifiers of—the intellect. Huh? In our knowledge-obsessed twenty-first century, the statement, Curbing the Aggressive, Capricious, Untrustworthy Intellect sounds like heresy. Unless we stop, really HALT. And think about the amount of words we read, hear, and […]

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In the Belly of the Whale: Jonah, The Reluctant Prophet

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In the Belly of the Whale: Jonah, The Reluctant Prophet. We’ve all been there. Alone. In the dark. Terrified. In the belly of the whale: Jonah, the reluctant prophet. Just four chapters long, the book of Jonah seems at first to be just another fantastic Bible story. Surely a wild tale, of course it’s allegory, right? And

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The Problem With the Catholic Church is the Crucifix

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The problem with the Catholic Church “So why did you become Catholic?” After listening to my abbreviated conversion story, Bob explained that he’d born a Catholic but was now an evangelical Christian. Apparently feeling the need to defend his decision to leave Catholicism to a new convert, Bob declared that the crucifix is depressing and

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Climate Change: The Activists are Both Right and Wrong

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Climate Change: The Activists are both right and wrong The activists are right: our created world and everything in it is suffering and in danger. But the climate change activists are wholly wrong in their belief that ending fossil fuels, all carbon dioxide emissions, eating meat, or decreasing the population will fix us. No government,

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Little Great Friday: Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist

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Little Great Friday… Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist… (Matthew 11: 11). Each year, on August 29th, the Christian liturgy celebrates the Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist. Herod arrested John, “on account of Herodias,” his brother’s wife. The Baptizer publicly censured

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How Can They?

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How can they do that? The woman in the above image personifies the reaction we’re intended to have when reading, or listening, and then discussing the news. “How can they do that?” The “that” being any of the dismally long list of politicians’ alleged conspiracies and criminal acts. Add to that the wealth amassed by

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Thinking About Capernaum: Woe Onto You

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Thinking about Capernaum Capernaum was Jesus’ town. The ruins pictured above were the great synagogue where Our Lord preached. It’s here where five of the twelve apostles lived: Peter, Andrew, John, James, and Matthew. Jesus’ town was the site of numerous miracles, among them the raising of Jairus’ daughter from the dead and the healing

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God As Mystery: Desperate Need for Silence

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God as mystery “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they

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Doubt Isn’t the Opposite of Faith

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Doubt Isn’t the Opposite of Faith Fear is. Father Eric Ritter’s comment, “Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; fear is,” remains in my mind days after I heard him preach the homily for Saint Matthew’s Tuesday 6 AM Mass. The Gospel passage for Tuesday was: As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him.Suddenly

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The Weapon of Prayer

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The weapon of prayer We don’t think of prayer as a weapon. At least I don’t, especially when I mitigate its power by saying, “All I can do is pray.” Yet, I know this life is a battle, so I have written about spiritual warfare countless times. Why then don’t I use my primary weapon

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Lin Weeks Wilder

Lin Weeks Wilder

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Curbing the Aggressive, Capricious, Untrustworthy Intellect

In the Belly of the Whale: Jonah, The Reluctant Prophet

The Problem With the Catholic Church is the Crucifix

Climate Change: The Activists are Both Right and Wrong

Little Great Friday: Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist

How Can They?

Thinking About Capernaum: Woe Onto You

God As Mystery: Desperate Need for Silence

Doubt Isn’t the Opposite of Faith

The Weapon of Prayer

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