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2018-06-21T15:29:54-06:00

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Take a Larger Way: Spiritual Counsel from a Place of Darkness

Last updated on: June 21, 2018 at 3:29 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

Janene looked at me with now uncharacteristic clarity in those big blue eyes and said… “The Lord Jesus is taking care of me and my brain, and it makes all the difference.” Janene is gone from us, deep in the darkness of dementia. Two years ago, though, she brought out this remarkable observation from that darkness: The Lord Jesus is taking care of me and my brain, and it makes all the difference. So while we watch and pray, Janene and Jesus... Read more

2018-05-31T21:09:45-06:00

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I Believe in the Prosperity Gospel

Last updated on: May 31, 2018 at 9:09 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

Maybe two of you who are reading this have opened it because of the title, and one of you is looking for affirmation of deeply held convictions and the other of you is outraged and ready to rumble. Let’s begin by defining some terms and then we’ll see if either of you feels better. “Prosperity Gospel” is the term used mainly by its critics to describe the belief systems of those who teach that God wants most of all that... Read more

2018-05-29T16:00:12-06:00

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A Spirit of Tranquility: Benedict

Last updated on: May 29, 2018 at 4:00 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

The English soul, according to Thornton, is Benedictine. Not Jesuit or Franciscan or Carmelite or Carthusian or even Cistercian. Benedictine. It goes with the homeliness of English spirituality, for Benedict’s charism was the way he created a home for the brothers, a place where they could work out their salvation, serve one another and the world, and grow in prayer and love. It has structure, but it isn’t crafted as rigorously as an Ignatian approach; it is rich in mysticism,... Read more

2018-05-21T11:46:00-06:00

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Augustine in English Spirituality: Kindled by Grace

Last updated on: May 21, 2018 at 11:46 am By Kathleen Mulhern

I used to think church history was my grandma and her Scofield Bible. I used to think authentic Christian faith leaped from the moment of the last apostle’s death (John on the Isle of Patmos?) to around the time of Billy Graham. (What was happening in all the intervening years? Hmmm, maybe Christian faith went underground, secretly being passed from one small “real” Christian group to another, with occasional grand flare-ups of faith like the Reformation. Everyone else was were... Read more

2018-04-05T14:48:04-06:00

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Jesus as an Anglican?: Articles of Religion, the Three Ways, and Scripture

Last updated on: April 5, 2018 at 2:48 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

In his exploration of English spirituality, Thornton is not shy about applauding the tradition. He really does say that “sometimes [our Lord] is very English.” (37) (It does make me gurgle just a bit, thinking of a 19th-century Jesus with, oh, say a monocle and a pipe and an Eton collar. Or maybe, since he was working class, a bowler hat, a worn frockcoat, and fingerless gloves.) Thornton’s appreciation for the English tradition is an honest one. He recognizes... Read more

2018-04-05T14:35:11-06:00

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The Art of Co-operating with Grace

Last updated on: April 5, 2018 at 2:35 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

Writing this on Easter Tuesday, it’s easy to see in the rearview mirror the efforts we made, wished we had made, tried to make, thought about making, or heard others made during the Lenten season just behind us. And now, whew!, all that struggle (or the guilt we may feel that there was no struggle) can be forgotten as we move into the joys of Easter, a season of victory and elation rather than sweat and tears. Of... Read more

2018-03-20T17:44:45-06:00

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Awake, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you: Lenten drama

Last updated on: March 20, 2018 at 5:44 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

“Now Lazarus was sick.” I doubt there is a one of us who has not experienced the sickness, even to death, of one we love. There’s a unique agony that goes with watching someone you love suffer and know that he or she is slipping from your grasp. That agony was Martha’s and Mary’s. And, of course, it was Jesus’ agony, too. We like to think that, knowing what he had in mind, knowing he could speak a word and... Read more

2018-04-05T14:33:50-06:00

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Elven Bread, English Asceticism, and the Homely Factor

Last updated on: April 5, 2018 at 2:33 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

In exploring asceticism, or spiritual theology, for 21st-century Christians, I’ve been using Martin Thornton’s English Spirituality, a journey through the common Christian elements of the English tradition and the distinctive components that make it unique. Thornton points out three ways English spirituality shares space with other Christian spiritualities: “It is elementary.” By this, Thornton means us to understand that Christian spirituality deals with the ordinary, the rhythms and practices of life that Christians take up everywhere in their response to... Read more

2018-04-05T14:33:03-06:00

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What Do Gridirons, Social Justice, and Faith Have to Do With One Another?

Last updated on: April 5, 2018 at 2:33 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

I recently spent a few hours in a couple of New York museums where at least twice I met Saint Lawrence in a painting. Each time, the artist put a gridiron (the grating kind for grilling, not the field kind for football) in his portrait, sometimes with flames licking his body. This third-century deacon of Rome was the one who, according to church tradition, succeeded in infuriating Emperor Valerian to the point that he was roasted alive as punishment. St.... Read more

2018-02-24T12:51:32-07:00

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The Secret to Billy Graham’s Success … and Failure

Last updated on: February 24, 2018 at 12:51 pm By Kathleen Mulhern

As is to be expected in this vitriolic age, no one is safe. Not even the saints. Especially when they’ve passed. Billy Graham has gone on to his rewards, and here on earth we’ve begun the dismantling of his life. For some, he was a hero. For others, a monster. For some, his unrelenting dedication to marital fidelity was a model of integrity and respect for Ruth. For others, it was a pernicious denigration of the value of women. For... Read more

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