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Like a Virgin

Like a Virgin

Mud-streaked Bernadette, witness to the apparition of Our Lady of the Grotto, is the illogical face of faith, and she was sanctified and reviled for it. Bernadette was either holy or mad, and nothing in between.

A surrealist’s dream

A surrealist’s dream

The task is to allow God-as-us and we-as-God freedom of movement, to love radically, ceaselessly, hopelessly in the times beyond all reasonable hope.

The false intimacy of collusion

The false intimacy of collusion

When is revelation a form of intimacy, when is disclosure oversharing, and when is a personal story designed to enrol the listener into an us-versus-them dynamic?

In defense of denial

In defense of denial

“Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.”

Murder on the page

Murder on the page

“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it —wholeheartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.” Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Why we are all absolute goners

Why we are all absolute goners

To bastardize a Buddhist saying, it’s not so much the finger pointing at the moon, as much as all fingers pointing back at me.

Hope and the wounded healer

Hope and the wounded healer

The servant leader abides in the place of transcendent hope itself – and holds a vision of healing and redemption when another cannot. This is what sensitive leadership looks like.

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