by Ron Rolheiser | Oct 4, 2016 | Opinion
Sometimes we’re a mystery to ourselves, or, perhaps more accurately, sometimes we don’t realize how much paranoia we carry within ourselves. A lot of things tend to ruin our day. I went to a meeting recently and for most of it felt warm, friendly toward my...
by Ron Rolheiser | Aug 2, 2016 | Opinion
Socrates wrote these words more than 2,400 years ago: “I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.” Today, more than ever, these are words which we would need to appropriate because, more and more, our world and we ourselves are sinking into...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jul 21, 2016 | Opinion
“The most damaging idolatry is not the golden calf but enmity against the other.” The renowned anthropologist, Rene Girard, wrote that, and its truth is not easily admitted. Most of us like to believe that we are mature and big-hearted and that we do love...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jun 13, 2016 | Opinion
Among the Ten Commandments, one begins with the word “remember”: “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day” (Exodus 20:8). It reminds us to recall something we already know. There are commandments of mercy written into our very DNA. We already...
by Ron Rolheiser | Apr 11, 2016 | Opinion
In the movie based upon Jane Austen’s classic novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” there’s a very poignant scene where one of her young heroines, suffering from acute pneumonia, is lying in bed hovering between life and death. A young man, very much...
