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The leadership we wanted and the leadership we got
Here's what's worrying me: When I wrote the "Prayer for Leadership" years ago, I was clearly quite immune to the idea that we might already be running out of leaders...
The leadership we wanted and the leadership we got
Here's what's worrying me: When I wrote the "Prayer for Leadership" years ago, I was clearly quite immune to the idea that we might already be running out of leaders...
To take someone into the home…
You can’t be in a monastery very long before you realize that there is always someone there besides the members of the community.
To take someone into the home…
You can’t be in a monastery very long before you realize that there is always someone there besides the members of the community.
A thousand deaths
In the East, at least, November is a sear month, beautiful for its bleakness. The skies hang grey and heavy, the wind gnaws and bellows. Life changes drastically from the...
A thousand deaths
In the East, at least, November is a sear month, beautiful for its bleakness. The skies hang grey and heavy, the wind gnaws and bellows. Life changes drastically from the...
Five ways of seeing
Life is about learning to see what we’re looking at—if we actually see it at all. It takes a while, but eventually, the really perceptive soul discovers that there are...
Five ways of seeing
Life is about learning to see what we’re looking at—if we actually see it at all. It takes a while, but eventually, the really perceptive soul discovers that there are...
Darkness makes us rethink
Somewhere along the line, the woman I once adored left me. I was her star, her joy, her best companion, her confidante, her only child.
Darkness makes us rethink
Somewhere along the line, the woman I once adored left me. I was her star, her joy, her best companion, her confidante, her only child.
The secret of the really spiritual life
In God's Holy Light Abba Sisoes says: “Seek God, not where God lives.”
The secret of the really spiritual life
In God's Holy Light Abba Sisoes says: “Seek God, not where God lives.”