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- The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis…
- Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy…
- Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning…
- The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To…
- If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame…
- To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls…
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