CS Lewis The Great Divorce: A Rereading

Posted by Lin Wilder
On May 26, 2019
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John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images CS Lewis- The Great Divorce: A Rereading …the bus was full oflight. It was cruel light. I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They wereall fixed faces, full not of possibilities but of impossibilities, some gaunt, some bloated, someglaring with idiotic ferocity, some […]

Death, Hope, Heaven- What Are We Here for Anyway?

Posted by Lin Wilder
On April 28, 2019
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Death, Hope, Heaven, What are we here for, anyway? In my pre-Catholic ‘pagan’ years, I worried about death. Mostly because I feared standing before a God I did not think I believed in and explaining why I had wasted knowledge, understanding, and time. After twenty years as a Catholic, I would like to think that […]

Your Life Is Worth Dying For

Posted by Lin Wilder
On April 21, 2019
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Your life is worth dying for… Exactly what are we worth? We usually think about our worth in dollars and cents. In terms of salaries, bonuses and raises. Each of us asks the question at least once, probably several times during the different phases of our lives: From the beginning of our careers and the […]

The Real Spiritual Battle

Posted by Lin Wilder
On April 14, 2019
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The Real Spiritual Battle We’re approaching Holy Week, the days of silence, reflection and accounting we’re given by the Christian liturgy each year to reply to the question: How did I do during these forty days? Will there be reason to feel jubilant on Easter a week from today? Whatever we choose to call them, […]

King David, You, Me And Idleness

Posted by Lin Wilder
On March 31, 2019
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King David, You, Me and Idleness It isn’t as if King David opened his eyes that morning, to ask, “What are the 3 most effective ways I can take this blessed God-Given-Life and invoke the worst conceivable miseries upon me and on everyone I love, am obligated to?” Or “How can I best take the […]

St. Peter: Buffoon Or Hero?

Posted by Lin Wilder
On March 17, 2019
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St. Peter: Buffoon or Hero? Each year on this Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus, I think about St. Peter and wonder if he was a buffoon or a bold, brave hero. Putting aside for a moment that the man is a saint, we are told enough about Peter to wonder about the man…buffoon or […]

A Joyous Lent

Posted by Lin Wilder
On March 10, 2019
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A joyous lent? It isn’t something you can understand easily. At least I can’t. That essential connection between joy and sorrow. The sorrowful agony of the man on the cross and the joy of the resurrection. I think it’s why we write poetry. Because the two emotions sound wholly opposed, as if they live in […]

High Desert Winds

Posted by Lin Wilder
On February 17, 2019
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High Desert Winds “For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like the sea in chemical composition, my every cell partaking of air. I live about as far from […]

If We Are Not Frightened by Brutality

Posted by Lin Wilder
On January 27, 2019
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If we are not frightened by brutality are not my words, instead, they are those of St. Augustine as he wrote about the serene, loving and Christlike words that poured from the mouth of the brutally tortured and dying martyr, St. Vincent during yet another of the successive regimes of persecution against Christians in the […]

The Times Are So Serious That Even Children

Posted by Lin Wilder
On January 20, 2019
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The times are so serious that even children “The times are so serious that even children should be made to understand that there are vital differences in people’s beliefs which lead to differences in behavior. This little story, I hope, will appeal to children so they will read it and as they grow older, they […]

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