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Some of my favorite Lenten phrases are about time. We start the season with Paul saying “Now is an acceptable time.” This Sunday, the fifth of Lent, starts with Jeremiah’s portentous phrase, “The days are coming, says the Lord.” Stuff’s ‘bout to get real, in other words. But “The days are coming, says the Lord”
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The Apple+ show has great examples of key leadership principles.
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Do you trust me? In the animated Disney classic Aladdin, that phrase, “Do you trust me?” is the theme to the whole story. It identified Aladdin – he asks it of Princess Jasmine on their first date, and he asks it again of her when he is a (poorly disguised) Prince Ali. (How Jasmine doesn’t
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“The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.” This short passage from Mark’s Gospel is all we get from him on the temptation in the desert that Matthew, Mark and Luke all
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Unpaint the rock. One of the things I noticed during the 2020 Pandemic Virtual College Tour is that several of the dozens of schools Betsy and I virtually visited share a tradition of painting a rock. In one case, we actually visited a campus in real life that had a rock like this, but we
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How did we get here? I. A few years ago, I started studying deaths of despair: drug overdoses, suicides, extremist violence, mass violence, gang violence. I wanted to know what draws people to these awful ends. And whether it was those who work in gang intervention programs or those who work with people trying to
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Messed up.* There’s a great podcast by America Media called Imagine that offers a series of guided reflections in a Jesuit prayer tradition in which you put yourself in the scene of a Biblical story. The first season walked with Jesus from his Baptism through his Resurrection. This season focuses on the Christmas story, and
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What if your real enemies are all inside you? Let me confess something: I’ve been running short on hope as of late. I won’t rehearse the reasons why; you know them, if you look around. I’ve also been wrestling with peace lately, which, well, is counterintuitive. But as much as I am reminded that I
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There’s a mantra of sorts in Jesuit spirituality about finding God in all things, and a question I’ve been reflecting on these days is this: “Where does my baggage blind me from seeing God in all things, and especially in all people?” This popped up for me in the wake of my gushing about the
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