Monthly Archives: May 2013

Sunday Reflection: Sixth Sunday of Easter (The Yes Church of Open Doors)

This week, both the first Sunday reading and the first reading during the weekday masses are from Acts of Apostles and deal with the Council of Jerusalem, the first Church council.  The Council of Jerusalem occurred in approximately 50 AD … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin and Stephen Jay Gould: The Real Forgery

This blog will primarily focus on the philosophical and theological aspects of Teilhard de Chardin’s life and contemporary applications of those themes.  Although Teilhard is most widely known today as a leading spiritual visionary, during his lifetime, he was also … Continue reading

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Embracing Doubt (Part III) (Common Ground with Nonbelievers)

This is Part III of the relationship between faith and doubt (primarily in a Christian context but the same principles apply for other religious traditions).  In Part I, I described some of my own faith journey and the excerpt from … Continue reading

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Embracing Doubt to Grow Into a Mature Faith (Part II)

“Worship him, I beg you, in a way that is worthy of thinking beings” — Romans 12:1 (Jerusalem Bible Translation) In Part I of this series, I talked a bit about my own personal journey of how embracing doubt helped … Continue reading

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Embracing Doubt to Grow Into a Mature Faith (Part I): The Path of Disbelief

My own spiritual journey was a very circuitous one.  I was born and raised Catholic, but by the time I was a teenage years and young adulthood, I drifted away, in part because I was drawn to the allure of … Continue reading

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