I’ve been on a sad theme this month, but just one more post on one other book will be enough to show that there is some goodness eminating from the idea of dealing with loss. My story on this came when a customer showed up one day, trying desperately to come up with something to [...]
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I awoke to my alarm Easter Sunday, tuned to NPR, as I’m wont to do. Within one minute of the radio kicking on, I heard the host of the Sunday morning program announce that she was interviewing Sr. Joan Chittister about her new book, cowritten with Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canturbury. In Uncommon Gratitude, [...]
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Some of my favorite places to visit in the United States are the monasteries and abbeys that often line the most remote areas of the countryside. There’s something warm and inviting about a place dedicated to the perpetual seeking of Jesus and God’s presence in every occurrence and aspect of life. In Cloister Talks: Learning [...]
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I’ve been on an inspiration kick lately. It isn’t that I need inspiration desperately, per se, so much as it is that I really want something valuable in my reading. For example, this Lent I have been reading a superb book by Mary Lou Kownacki, a Benedictine Nun who has spent much of her last [...]
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