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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 ...

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Guilt: Kroc and Crosby

In a scene set in the mid-1950s in the movie, The Founder, Ray Kroc tells the McDonald brothers, the real founders of the fast-food giant, that eating at a McDonald’s ...


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Second Sunday of Advent

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Mt. 3:1   THE HEALING POWER OF FAITH These words highlight the cover of December 2016’s National Geographic magazine. They scroll ...

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A Thanksgiving Memory of a Near Tragedy

Back when our daughter, Maureen, was almost two, I ran over her with my car. I was parked in our driveway and was leaving to go somewhere – I don’t ...

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When Church Doesn’t Feel Like a Spiritual Place

“As a child,” writes Annika Freese in a recent issue of America magazine, “I could never find God in his house. “Sitting in Mass I felt like a machine that ...

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Lessons from a Baseball Team

Many of you may not be sports fans, but this post is not about sports. It’s not even about my favorite baseball team, the Kansas City Royals, who – even ...