Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
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Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder

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Ash Wednesday: 40 Days of Opportunities for Strange Correlations

Ash Wednesday: 40 Days of Opportunities for Strange Correlations

A few years ago, the priest ended his Ash Wednesday homily with the command to “Have a joyous Lent!” I do not know if anyone else in the crowded church was as astonished as I at this exhortation. But incrementally, I am beginning to peel back the infinite paradoxes and contradictions of this faith of ours. One that mandates joy while immersed in terrible sorrow, fear, loss, betrayal, even death.
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An Open Letter to My Aborted Daughter, Nicole

An Open Letter to My Aborted Daughter, Nicole

I watched the movie, Gosnell, last night because I felt I owed you that. To know precisely what was done to you all those years ago, while I slept, unconscious. I thought I would sob through the entire film; instead, I was dry-eyed throughout. I could think of little else all evening as I thought about the woman I had been and what I did to you.
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The Neverending Story: A Heart Stopping Allegory

The Neverending Story: A Heart Stopping Allegory

For lovers of Michael Ende’s Neverending Story, this stunningly profound conversation between the young hunter Atreyu and the Childlike Empress is most likely recognizable. But for those like me, who had never read the book, seen the movie, nor was interested in either, one some background may be in order.
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The Passion of Patience: Ordinary, Banal and Impossible... Alone

The Passion of Patience: Ordinary, Banal and Impossible... Alone

The phrase, “passion of patience” is not my own but instead is gleaned from the writings of Venerable Madeleine Debrel, former atheist turned Catholic apologist who lived and died during the last century. Her poem of the same begins with this searing line: The patiences, these little pieces of passion, whose job is to kill us slowly for your glory, to kill us without our glory...
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I know that you acted in ignorance. Surprising fruits of Lent

I know that you acted in ignorance. Surprising fruits of Lent

.Now, I know, brothers and sisters, that you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders did; but God has brought to fulfillment what he had announced though the mouth of all the prophets... I italicized the words credited to St. Peter from the Thursday, April 5th reading because they seemed to shout at me as I sat listening to them during daily Mass three days ago
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Epiphany: Seeking—and Finding—Truth

Epiphany: Seeking—and Finding—Truth

Epiphany. Before I converted to Christian Catholicism, I knew the noun only as AHA! Something previously opaque suddenly made clear, like when I first began to understand the astounding complexity and compensatory ability of the human heart. But now the word Epiphany connotes an event.
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