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Third Sunday of Easter

                           “Come and have breakfast.” Jn. 21:12 Ever been betrayed? Ever felt the pain of being abandoned, dismissed, rejected? If you have, then you know these are experiences that often ...

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Faith Painfully Tested

The scene is Poland, winter of 1945. Just as Poles are sighing in relief that the Nazi death camps have been liberated and the Nazis vanquished, the country is occupied ...

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Does Faith Breed Mediocrity?

Among the interesting people I covered as medical/science writer for The Des Moines Register was Patricia Clare Sullivan, alias “Attila the Nun.” Her obituary was in the newspaper recently. She ...

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Searching for a Sense of Purpose

Tiffany Haddish was “the breakout star of last summer’s raucous hit movie, Girl’s Trip, and last month became the first African-American woman stand-up comedian to host Saturday Night Live,” according ...

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Faith: What to Keep, What to Discard

This blog is published every Thursday. But for the first time in five years, I won’t be publishing Skeptical Faith next Thursday, Jan. 11. I’ll be on a week-long expedition ...

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The Transient Power of a Tear

A public-service TV “commercial” back in the 1970s shows an obviously Native American canoeing a river. Smokestacks shoot particles into the air, forming smog. Garbage floats by. A close-up shows ...