Paying attention to those who are prophetically controversial today

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** Maybe it’s time for me to let go of Thomas Merton ([link removed])
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Who do I pay attention to who may be prophetically controversial today?

by Cassidy Hall


** Stephen Sondheim’s expressions of yearning ([link removed])
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My spirituality was shaped by this secular artist’s powerful spiritual questions.

by Martin B. Copenhaver


** The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again ([link removed])
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So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?

by Jason Byassee
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** Living by the Word for December 19 (Advent 4C) ([link removed])
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It’s hard to believe in an enchanted world.

by Marlena Proper Deida Graves

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** Reckoning with our messiah complexes ([link removed])
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The vulnerability of the newborn Christ challenges our inclination to play God.

by Peter W. Marty
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