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The Artist and Gardener, Or, How to (Not) Take Back Our Nation

Posted on November 11, 2016January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

Like many of you, I stayed up late on election night watching polls and listening as pundits prognosticated ‘what it all means.’ I confess that I have spent most of my free time since Tuesday night reading columns on the right and the left, digging through the sudden avalanche of anxieties projected by ‘Red’ America,…

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Mother Teresa

The Challenge of Imitating Mother Teresa (or The Sorrow of Not Being a Saint)

Posted on September 6, 2016January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

Once she was fast-tracked, the end result was no surprise. We knew she should become “St. Teresa”—though, as Pope Francis noted at Sunday’s canonization mass, it will be hard not to keep calling her “Mother.” No, what struck me was something else Pope Francis said: “May she be your model of holiness.” My model of…

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Reflections from an African-American Police Chaplain

Posted on July 20, 2016January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

While the world is concerned with the constant threat from terrorist groups, the United States is finding itself facing a terror of its own. The shootings of two young African-American men, one in Baton Rouge, La., and the other in a suburb of St. Paul, Minn., have ignited a tension between law enforcement and the…

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