by Ron Rolheiser | Aug 19, 2015 | Opinion
The famed and feisty psychologist, Fritz Pearls, was once asked by a well-meaning Christian if he was saved. He responded by saying, “I am still trying to figure out how to be spent!” His retort echoes a line from Theresa of Avila who states that once we...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jul 22, 2015 | Opinion
Today we no longer understand the value and power of ritual. This is more than an individual failing. It’s the cultural air we breathe. In the words of Robert L. Moore, we’ve gone “ritually tone-deaf.” The effects of this can be seen...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jun 15, 2015 | Opinion
Imagine a man who during his whole life is entirely careless about God and morality. He’s selfish, ignores the commandments and all things religious, and is basically consumed with pursuing his own pleasure – wine, sex and song. Then, just hours before his...
by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 25, 2015 | Opinion
Numerous groups and individuals today are challenging us in regard to our relationship to mother earth, urging us to be less blind, less unthinking and less reckless in terms of how we relate to the earth. Every day our newscasts point out how, without much in the way...
by Ron Rolheiser | Dec 8, 2014 | Opinion
When the famous historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) decided to become a Roman Catholic, his aristocratic mother was distressed, not because she had any aversion to Catholic dogma, but because now her son would, in her words, have to “worship with the...
