Richard Rohr

Candles on a church floor

Advent Is Always

The suffering, injustice, and devastation on this planet are too great now to settle for any infantile gospel or any infantile Jesus.

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There but for the Grace of God…

Whenever I think about addiction, my cinema-obsessed mind immediately goes to director Darren Aronofsky's brutal but brilliant 2000 film, Requiem for a Dream.
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Man praying | Photo by Ric Rodrigues

How Can Anyone Pray ‘Always’?

Prayer is saying “yes” to the paschal mystery at work in all things.
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Richard Rohr on Sacred Violence

Both René Girard and Gil Bailie have taught us that the most effective and common way to turn social hatred into social harmony is via a scapegoat.
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Advent: Waiting in Darkness

Darkness is powerless to the light, as this theologian explains.
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How Can Anyone Pray ‘Always’?

Over the centuries, the word prayer has been distorted and trivialized.
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Skewed view of church

What Is Your View on Reality?

Everybody looks at the world through their own lens, a matrix of culturally inherited qualities, family influences, and other life experiences.
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