Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."