Christ, Christians, and the Body Language of Transformation

For the Catholic Church, and in rather broad strokes, the first ecumenical council--the Council of Jerusalem--began a spate of councils, all of which were focused on right belief, or orthodoxy.  They told us you didn’t have to become Jewish ...

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KKC 10: John 11, Jesus as Teacher of Self

Catherine of Siena said “All the Way to Heaven is Heaven.”  I’ll dodge the temptation to write “Amen I say to you” then differ with it.  Instead I’ll riff on Catherine’s words and get to the point: for the true self, schooled in letting ...

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Rocking a Sad-White-Guy Vibe: a PSA on depression.

I came into teaching with an essentially narcissistic desire to “inspire the youth of America” or whatever.  Laudable as that is, the successive autumns began wearing the edges off my inner “rookie teacher.”   In the end, this isn’t just ...

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Step 12: Service, My inner adult's inside voice, and the importance of the 13th step

Ultimately, I want to say "because I'm codependent, service is hard."  But this deserves a preface: I made my understanding into a God, instead of letting God be himself.  I called my own will God’s and imagined I was living for a higher ...

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