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I asked theology students why they became union leaders (opens the original)
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how running taught me to rest (opens the original)
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Two years ago roughly this week, I did an 18 mile run that went up, over, and back around a mountain. I was training for my first trail marathon and was ahead of schedule fitness wise. I’m awesome, I thought. But by then, I’d already been fighting a complex injury that involved multiple tendons in my left ankle and was steadily dominoing up my calf and knee. I’d been doing PT, but also continued ramping up weekly mileage and climbing—higher, faster, longer, harder—determined to will my way towar
Ten Thousand Returns (opens the original)
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There’s a legend you’ve probably heard if you’ve dabbled in the contemplative practice called Centering Prayer. In one of the very earliest training workshops led by Fr. Thomas Keating himself, a nun tried out her first twenty-minute taste of Centering Prayer. Believing she was supposed to have passed beyond every invasive thought and settled into an ocean of contemplative silence, she lamented, “Oh, Father Thomas, I’m such a failure at this prayer. In twent
For Such a Time as This (opens the original)
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Theology — at its best and worst — has never been content to wait in the wings quibbling over the ethereal. It has always involved itself in matters of life and death as they are present in the issues and challenges of the day. Theology, in this sense, isn’t just philosophizing on the distant divine: it is a way of reflecting on life in the world unfolding around us, a striving to make sense, in terms of the shining revelations and dark mysteries of God, of what is, what could be, and what then
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