Category: Columns

  1. What lies beneath?

    What lies beneath?

    Nestled in the valley between the European Union institutions in Brussels is the Chapel for Europe, a reconstructed former convent chapel resurrected as an ecumenical worship…

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  2. Beyond Jerusalem

    Is this the time you are going to make Israel great again?’ Sometime between the Resurrection and the Ascension – where we happen to be today…

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  3. Kings or Leaders: A Time to Choose

    We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before…

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  4. Moving Beyond ‘Sides’ to Relational Wholeness

    On most days since Trump took office, the line that has run through my head is from the movie “Airplane!”: “Looks like I picked the wrong…

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  5. The New Realities

    In twenty-four years of writing Weekly Word, this week’s edition is for me the saddest. The events of the past days and weeks are forcing us to…

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  6. Navigating Today’s Disruptive Leadership Winds

    (This essay is largely adapted from a retreat I led this week with a group of non-profit CEOs focusing on today’s disruptive leadership challenges.) “Zuckerberg says…

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  7. A Conversation on “A United Nations for the 21st Century”

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  8. Dumbstruck

    How historians will view these last two weeks of chaos and turbulence following the inauguration of the new presidential regime in America is too early to…

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  9. Radical forgiveness

    Radical forgiveness

    January 18, 2025 News of a ceasefire breakthrough in Gaza was greeted with celebrations in the streets this week, yet tempered by awareness that lasting peace…

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  10. A New Year’s Resolution: Reclaiming the Gift of Being Wrong

    Sometimes heaven is just a new pair of glasses. Father Ed Dowling, advisor to the Founder of AA Here’s a new, New Year’s Resolution: This next…

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