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Good Shepherd, Bad Shepherd*

By Paul | Published: February 27, 2010
People are like sheep. Isn’t that why we have the Christian metaphor of the Good Shepherd? Someone who will tell us right from wrong, who will keep us safe from harm, who will tuck us snugly in the warm blankets of heaven on that last and most frightening darkest night of the soul? Not all [...]
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A thicket of views

By Paul | Published: February 25, 2010
My father is a kind, generous, and helpful man. He has a good sense of humor and seems always to be happy. He’s also very conservative. I’d always known from the way he lived he that he was religiously conservative. “Devout Catholic” is an apt description. But I was well into my adult life before [...]
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Wisdom Comes to the White House

By Paul | Published: November 5, 2008
As I watched the blue numbers climb yesterday, I had a sense of relief and satisfaction. (I suspect it was the same kind of feeling had by those who watched George Bush’s numbers climb in 2000 and 2004. Of course, I know today many of those same people are glum and dispirited and angry.) Obama’s [...]
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Elections and Equanimity

By Paul | Published: November 1, 2008
By 8:00 p.m. PST Tuesday, November 4, the United States of America will have elected its 44th president. At 57 years old, I’ve been through a few elections. Being a 9-year-old Catholic in 1960, I remember the controversy around John Kennedy’s candidacy: If elected, he would take orders directly from the Pope – and good-bye [...]
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