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4 Tragic Things Christians Say After Tragedies
Sometimes comforting yourself with your faith doesn’t help anyone else. “God spared my life for a purpose.” A number of times after tragedies, including 9/11 and last week’s horrible event, I have...
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Losing My Religion, Gaining Spirituality
Brandon Ferdig’s story of getting sober, finding “god”, and relating with his religious family. On the occasional Sunday we missed church when I was growing up, my three brothers, sister, and I would...
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I Will Wait
Sometimes the message is in the song. This time the message is the song. Music is a big part of my life even if the only thing I play is the stereo. I prefer digital to analog as it’s much easier to...
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Why Do Men Have a Hard Time Handing Things Over To God?
If pride truly cometh before the fall then we need a strong harness and a good helmet. Note: When I use “God” I’m talking about the God of the Jewish, Christian and Catholic faiths but it can mean...
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Gratitude: 11/10
What are you grateful for? What uncommon or everyday blessing do you feel most grateful for in your life? Do you have rituals for expressing your gratitude? What are they? How do you cultivate the...
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When I Make My Lunch
Waldo quietly prays for food like I sometimes beg for scraps from heaven. I have a miniature schnauzer named Waldo. I don’t know when it happened, because I remember actively planning that it...
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Dear John: Cheapskate Dates
Dear John advises on cheap dates, taped sex without consent, and a friend torn between religion and honesty. This article originally appeared at GoLocalProv.com. Dear John, I have been going on a lot...
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Very Superstitious
Rituals we perform for good luck are known as sorcery, and actions we avoid out of superstition are taboos. “One morning I happened to turn over the salt-cellar at breakfast. I reached for some of it...
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Meet a Bladesmith Whose Last Name Is Shanks … For Real
Forging could be considered the second oldest profession in the world, but for outlaw biker Terry Shanks forging has become a spiritual discipline. WARNING: Due to the graphic language used in this...
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Praying with Eve Ensler for Myself and My Fellow Men
Eve Ensler’s new short film “Man Prayer” raises awareness about violence against women. Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues, has written a new stirring piece. Entitled “Man Prayer,”...
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Funeral
This weekend, we get a look into a father’s life–an Episcopalian father, presiding over a funeral. Father Patrick Quinn is a man with normal desires: faith, sex, automobiles. How can he get what he...
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Cousins Talk God
I’ve often found that boys are capable of a more frank discussion of manhood than us older guys are. When I have gone to boys’ schools to speak the questions are always so blunt, the interest in what...
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Who Is Greater?
What makes someone like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev vulnerable to radicalization? A Muslim American parent of two young men asks a question that strikes close to home. — When my son, Justyn, called me to ask if...
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Visions: 6/22
An examination of the ways that what you see in your mind’s eye influences your life. A rite of passage that some men experience, and will set out to encounter as a personal challenge, is the vision...
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Great Fathers’ Day Gift Idea: New Book on Men and Prayer
Do men pray? Should they? Brian McLaren argues, in the introduction to a new prayer book for men entitled Men Pray: Voices of Strength, Faith, Healing, Hope and Courage, that they should. “There are...
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A Shot in the Light: A True Story
One night on the way to L.A. from Vegas, Lion Goodman had a brush with death when he heard an explosion and realized he was bleeding. — It was the summer of 1978. I was traveling through the...
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Syria: An Atheist’s Prayer
As the international community debates, an atheist resolves to take action My heart is breaking as I sit in my flat, watching the news coverage of Syria. It’s the current ‘hot topic.’ All cameras...
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Why Honest Faith Requires Honest Doubt
Author T.E. Hanna explores the importance of doubt in true faithfulness The German theologian Paul Tillich once wrote, “Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” One cannot...
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5 Ways for Men to Take it Easy and Stress Out Less
Joe Rutland shares his antidotes to perfectionism,workaholism and the money grind. Probably since the first caveman looked out on the rocky formations, working and grinding “it” out have been at...
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A Mystic’s Guide to Deep Happiness & Inner Guidance
For Jacob Winkler, written prayer can be a powerful emotional reset button, ushering in focus, compassion and even bliss. Every day I try to sit down and write what I call Prayer and Guidance. On...
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