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Dear People Whom God Loves, When I was a freshman in high school, I had an elderly lady as our Latin teacher.  All of us in our great adolescent wisdom thought she was completely out of it.  We gave no heed to the things she said. I do remember two things that she said.  One […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Two monologues means that two people (or groups)state their position as clearly as possible to each other.  This is an advance over the subtle or not so subtle stating of our position by expressing only what we think will win the argument and is not entirely what we think or […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Is my house built on sand or on rock?  I am referring to my belief house, my intellectual house, my values house. From my perspective I see that the rock of my house is the belief and conviction that I am understood and loved by Love (God) just as I […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Holy Mystery  This is the phrase the great German theologian Karl Rahner used to point to God.  He is emphatic that we can’t prove the existence of God.  But he uses this phrase to show a reasonable foundation for our belief in God. Rahner starts by looking at us human […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Second, Holy Spirit.  We have reflected on Holy Mystery entering into our history by entering into and being present in Jesus.  The Love that is Holy Mystery wanted a closeness that walks our human walk.  Again, our words are valuable, but the ways of Holy Mystery remain mystery. Now we […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, We have been reflecting about God as Holy Mystery.  Holy Mystery is the phrase that Karl Rahner uses to point to what we call God.  Rahner emphasizes how radically mysterious God is.  How different and how far beyond our understanding.  He then proceeds to talk on how incredibly close Holy […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Theism  This describes the belief that God is personal.  That God is someone.  That God knows and loves.  That God is involved in the universe.  That God is interested in us.  That we are called to worship.  That we can have a relationship with God.  That prayer is valuable.  That […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Agnosticism   This describes the belief that I don’t know whether or not God exists.  The value of this belief is that we cannot prove that God exists or that God does not exist.  Whatever stance we take, it is a belief not a proof. Atheism  This describes the belief that […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Now to get back to the two ways of looking at our religious tradition that are not helpful to us. The first way:  To accept our tradition in a manner that we have no need to continually plumb more deeply the tradition that we have received.  To believe that there […]