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Image of God
Many years ago I wrote this poem after the birth of my third son. It is particularly appropriate during this season of advent; the poem can easily be applied to the Christ child. Image of God Sheltered in warmth, Cocooned … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby, Christ, Guardian Angel, Jesus, Love
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Love and Compassion
Buddhists call it compassion, This love that we have within, A love that is in fashion, Intuits when we begin, A house with many mansions, A place without sin. A place where fly the fairies, Those beings swift as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Compassion, faith, god, Jesus, Love, poetry
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Christianity and Independence Day
Independence Day in America is a secular holiday celebrating freedom with picnics, fireworks, parades, and the proud display of the American flag. For Christians, Independence Day means even more, for by the signing of the Declaration of Independence a series … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Christianity
Tagged bible, Christianity, faith, history, Independence, Jesus, Love
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Christianity and Labor Day: Why Work Matters
Americans first celebrated Labor Day in the 1880s during the height of the Industrial Revolution in America when immigrants were coming to America to fill the growing number of low-paying jobs in factories in American cities. The founders of Labor … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, Love, Work
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Bartholomew de Las Casas: Missionary Advocate for the Indigenous People of New Spain
When in 2016 Pope Francis visited Chiapas, Mexico, to demand rights for the indigenous people of Mexico, he was on familiar ground for champions of indigenous rights. Four hundred and eighty-one years earlier, in 1544, one of the great champions … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Biography, Christianity, Great Commission, history, Jesus, Love, mexico, spain
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The Theology of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Joseph Razinger’s (Pope Benedict XVI’s) book Eschatology
What happens when we die? Roman Catholics have death ever on the mind. It is part of Christian theology, to follow the commandments and sacraments so to be prepared when death comes. But then, why do we still fear death? … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, books, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, Love, Pope
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Thomas Merton and the Great Commission
Thomas Merton spent his life contemplating his purpose in the world, trying to discern how his desires and ambitions fit God’s plan. Born in France in 1915, Merton was well-traveled, a convert to Catholicism, and by his own admission was … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Christianity, faith, god, Great Commission, Jesus, Love
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Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker
Dorothy Day was a lay missionary. She was not a member of a religious order (although she did become a Benedictine oblate), rather she was a convert to Catholicism who completely embraced the religion to guide her everyday existence according … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, catholic, Christianity, faith, Great Commission, Love
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Hedonism (and Christianity)
In the book of Acts, 14, 12, the author calls Hermes (the Greek messenger God) the deceiver–hence paganism (that is, a religion based on naturalism, hedonism, superstition) deceives its adherents, even deceives them into thinking men are gods.Hermes is a perfect … Continue reading
The Mysterious Love of God
As the War for Independence drew to a close in 1783, leaving so much death and destruction in its wake, it gave pause to many thinkers of the time as to the role of God in such affairs: was God’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap, Love
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The American Plutarch 