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Can we please find another word for “blessed”?

June 17, 2016

Our recent vacation was wonderfully restorative, giving us the space to soak in the truth of words spoken by the late rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. On one of our early morning beach walks John and I felt positively overwhelmed by the goodness of our … More Can we please find another word for “blessed”?

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Making Sense of Suffering

February 26, 2016

A friend recently passed along an article on suffering that said that “suffering is a gift,” and that suffering “pushes you toward Christ.” I must confess that I couldn’t get through the rest of the article. It seemed to me to be very bad theology. I really gag on the whole idea that there is … More Making Sense of Suffering

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