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Best Reads 2013. III: Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes:...
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, says Frances Young in Brokenness and Blessing, is the kind of book she would have liked to have written herself. Published by Oxford University Press, this is a...
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Divine love is incessantly restless …
Some quotes from Belden Lane’s The Solace of Fierce Landscapes to complement my previous post: The starting point for many things is grief, at the place where endings seem so absolute. Divine love is...
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Two types of losses
At the beginning of Lent I decided to subscribe to the Lent Daily Reflections by the World Community for Christian Meditation. I am glad that I did, because they have contained many inspiring thoughts...
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Best Reads 2013. VI: Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
This book, indeed Rumi generally, has been a revelation to me. As I have said elsewhere, I had come across him several times in the writings of Richard Rohr and others, but it was only when a woman I...
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Best Reads 2013. VIII: Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey...
his is one of the lesser known books by the late Dutch Roman Catholic priest Henri Nouwen, best remembered perhaps for books such as The Return of the Prodigal Son and The Wounded Healer. In the...
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Stories
Stories. Mostly, as it happens, women’s stories. One writes: ‘When I was forty-one I lost the ability to read. … I was trying to get myself and my two children free of a husband I had been with for...
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Reluctant
Very often we are reluctant to admit that we are the sick and sinful Jesus came to heal, and very often we prefer our self-protecting isolation to the risk of our face-to-face encounter with the Other...
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To help
To help lift a burden, to help light a path, to help heal a hurt, to help seek a truth – these struck me as the sorts of things that human beings were created to do for one another …. Barbara Brown...
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To help
To help lift a burden, to help light a path, to help heal a hurt, to help seek a truth – these struck me as the sorts of things that human beings were created to do for one another …. Barbara Brown...
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It needs no power to kill
The following poem was written by Thomas Merton to commemorate the beautiful act of Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl, who, when she was dying as a consequence of the atomic bomb dropped on...
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