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Newsletters 2006

December 27, 2006
Receiving God
Choosing to be Human
Being like Jesus
What is holiness?

December 20, 2006
Advent: Waiting with Hope
Pocket Prayers
Angelic Encounters
What if God doesn't answer my prayers?

December 13, 2006
Advent: Waiting Silently
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Why Be Silent?
Ministering Angels
How do I know when it is God who is speaking to me?

December 6, 2006
Advent: Waiting Patiently
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Surprised by Mary
Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog
Is it all right to be spiritual without being religious?

November 29, 2006
Why We Need Sabbath
Pray the Divine Hours
In God's Time
What is the power of prayer?

November 22, 2006
Give Thanks to God Always
A Prayer for Simple Satisfaction
Send a card of Thanksgiving
Why can't we love ourselves unconditionally as God loves us?

November 15, 2006
Thoughts on Strife and Unity
Truth Beyond Understanding
A Prayer in Times of Conflict
What if I strongly disagree with the views of someone who professes to be a Christian?

November 8, 2006
Amazed by Grace
Looking Beneath the Surface
A Prayer of Gratitude for Family
What is meant by the grace of God?

November 1, 2006
What Saints can teach us
David Bazan: Artist, Sinner, Christian
St. Catherine of Siena
How can I live the life of faith?

October 25, 2006
Questions of Faith and Doubt: Faith vs. Fact
A Prayer Practice: Deep Wonder
What Do Our Neighbors Believe? Social Issues

October 18, 2006
Living Spiritually in an Arguing World
Prayers for Finding Peace
Why does God let bad things happen in the world?

October 11, 2006
The World Upside Down
An E-Prayer for Finding God
Where is the Kingdom of God?

October 4, 2006
St. Francis: A Light Still Shining
St. Francis's Song of Joy
Meditating with Poetry
What if I'm not certain what I believe?

September 27, 2006
Creating Space for God
Art & Soul
A Prayer for Expressing Gratitude
Beyond Words
What if I don't know how to pray?

September 20, 2006
Leading the Way
Timeless Language: St.Teresa of Avila
A Prayer for Unity in Love
Rounding Up the Saints
Do spiritual practices that are most often associated with Eastern religions have a place in the lives of Christians?

September 13, 2006
Living from the Inside Out
An Unhurried Life
A Prayer for Stillness
St. Cuthbert: A 7th-Century Sage
How can I know what God wants me to do with my life?

September 6 , 2006
Soul Food
Beyond Words: 15 Ways of Doing Prayer by Kristin Johnson Ingram
A Prayer for the Human Family

Hope Rising: 9/11 Remembered
Where do I look to find God in this world of tragedy and pain?

August 30, 2006
Perspectives on Spiritual Living
A Prayer for Staying Spiritually Centered
Into the Mystic: the Poetry of Rumi
How can Christians accept Christianity as the way to God, and still give credence to the truth and reality of other religions?

August 23, 2006
Discernment
A Musician's Story
A Prayer for Living with Purpose
Using Music to Hear the Holy
How are we to respond to acts of terrorism and hatred expressed by self-proclaimed "enemies" of Christianity?

August 16, 2006
Finding Treasure in an Irish Bog
Celtic Christianity
The Last Word by N.T. Wright
St. Columba's Prayer
The Abundant Life of the 23rd Psalm
Why are there so many disagreements about certain passages in the Bible?

August 9, 2006
The Truth About Forgiveness
A Prayer for Forgiving Oneself
Being Real
How can the God of judgment and punishment be reconciled with the concept of a God of love?
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August 2, 2006
Julian of Norwich
Saints, Prophets and Spiritual Guides
Just Peace: A Message of Hope by Mattie J.T. Stepanek
A Prayer for Those Who Are Suffering
God is With Us
What Do Our Neighbors Believe?: Sacred Texts

July 26, 2006
Knowing More:
Gnosticism, Mary Magdalene, Lost Christianities, Women in American Religious History
Reflections for Your Journey: Is it all right to be spiritual without being religious?
Doing the Work of Heaven on Earth Today
Q & A About the Practice of Meditation

July 19, 2006
Parker Palmer: Let Your Life Speak
Reflections for Your Journey: American Pilgrimage
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sometimes You Just Can't Get Away

July 12, 2006
What Do Our Neighbors Believe?
Reflections for Your Journey: Our Neighbors
A Thought-A-Day Calendar for the Season
Transforming, in a God-like Way

July 5, 2006
Thoughts on Freedom
Reflections for Your Journey: Baptized Patriots
Praying for Ourselves and Others
Don't Know, Must Choose

June 28, 2006
Ram Dass
Reflections for Your Journey: Listening to Your Dreams
What then, do our prayers do?
The Lord is Near

June 21, 2006
Exploring the Labyrinth
Reflections for Your Journey: Living the God-life
Balancing Work and Leisure
Cultivating a Lifestyle of Forgiveness

June 14, 2006
Faith & Life: What difference does Faith make in your life?
Reflections for Your Journey: A Father's Day Thought
A Father's Day Card From My Son
Male Spirituality and the Second Half of Life

June 7, 2006
The Spirit of Pentecost
Reflections for Your Journey: Holiness Occurs in the Lived Life

Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
Being Real about Life

May 31, 2006
Thich Nhat Hanh: Thoughts on Peace & Mindfulness
Reflections for Your Journey: Praying the Hours
Daily Thoughts on Loving
What We Really Need

May 24, 2006
Thoughts on Pilgrimage
Reflections for Your Journey: The Nature of God
Finding Jesus, Discovering Self
Spiritual Direction: What it is and what it isn't

May 17, 2006
Deciphering The Da Vinci Code
Reflections for Your Journey: What The Da Vinci Code Offers People of Faith

Challenging Your Belief System
God or the Girl: TV's Higher Calling

May 10, 2006
Send an e-card or e-prayer on Mother's Day
Reflections for Your Journey: Lessons from a Celtic Saint
Fr. Daniel BerriganTurns 85
Praying When There's No Time to Pray

May 3, 2006
Discernment: Finding Clarity
Reflections for Your Journey: A World of Difference
Cinco de Mayo
A Purpose for Everything?

April 26, 2006
Meditate with Poetry
Reflections for Your Journey: The Yoke That Frees
Can the Gospel of Judas Say Anything to Jews?
On the Balcony with Dr. King

April 19, 2006
Mystery & Mysticism
Reflections for Your Journey: The Light on the Water
Reviews on: Misquoting Jesus & The Last Word
A Thought a Day for the 50 Days of Easter

April 12, 2006
Thoughts on Good Friday and Easter
Reflections for Your Journey: The Open Arms of Jesus
The Journey of Faith
The Gospel of Judas

April 5, 2006
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Reflections for Your Journey: The Seeds of Our Soul
What Does Conversion Mean Today?
Three Thoughts to Ponder for Lent

March 29, 2006
TIME: Winding Down our Hurried Lives
Reflections for Your Journey: In the Fullness of Time
Be a Blessing
God's Footprints

March 22, 2006
Being Real: Spiritual Tools for Authentic Living
Reflections for Your Journey: For Lent... and Beyond
St. Patrick: Christ Within Me
Your Spiritual Coach: Hearing God's Voice

March 15, 2006
What Does it Mean to Lead a Spiritual Life?
Reflections for Your Journey: Slipping Into Mystery
Three Simple Sentences about Hope
I Give Up

March 8, 2006
Searching for God
Reflections for Your Journey: Fearing the God of Judgment
What Would Jesus Do...with our prisons?
Hurry Up and Wait

March 1, 2006
When We are Real
Reflections for Your Journey: Dust to Dust
Love in Action: Relationships as an Expression of Faith
Closing The Book of Daniel: Jesus Censored off the TV Screen

February 22, 2006
Praying the Way Jesus Prayed
Reflections for Your Journey: When We Are Afraid, God is There
Thank You St. Teresa of Avila
Have You Ever Heard This Voice? by Marcus Borg

February 15, 2006
Why Forgive?
Reflections for Your Journey: A Community of Love
Courting Religious Controversy: The Da Vinci Code Film
Melancholy: When You Have the Blues

February 8, 2006
Send a Valentine e-card
Reflections for Your Journey: Songs of Love
A Valentine from God
I Don’t Like Valentine’s Day

February 1, 2006
What is the essence of America's Gospel?
Reflections for Your Journey: A Prayer For Staying Spiritually Centered
When You are Troubled by Doubt
The Christian Bar Mitzvah?

January 25, 2006
What Are You Asking?
Reflections for Your Journey: Stretching Our Souls
New Year's Resolutions: Bah! Humbug!
The Harshest Winter Finds in Us an Invincible Spring

January 18, 2006
White China
Reflections for Your Journey: The Truth of Myth
How do you Make God Laugh? Tell Him Your Plans
Help from Your Spiritual Coach

January 11, 2006
Surprising Gifts of a Fundamentalist Childhood
Reflections for Your Journey: The Full Experience of God
The Loss of Twelve Miners
Oh God, Rescue Me from My Despair

January 4, 2006
The Spirituality of Place
Reflections for Your Journey: A Lifetime of Listening
Spiritual New Year?s Resolutions
Speaking the Truth from our Heart

 

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