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Saints- Average Human Beings Trying to be Better

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By Jean Welch Hill– Several years ago, I purchased Robert Ellsberg’s All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time.  Over the course of the year learning…

Thrills and Chills at the Family Graveyard

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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My family, or at least recent versions of it, includes many wanderers. As a result, the closest thing I have to a family cemetery, a repository…

On the narrow path of wisdom and wonder

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By Deacon Scott Dodge– I read a post this morning in which the author, who I gather is something of a post-Christian Christian, writes about taking an apophatic approach to…

Only Love is moral

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By Deacon Scott Dodge– Do what is good and avoid what is evil. This is morality in a nutshell. In a Christian tenor: love God with all your heart, might,…

The Voluntary Prisoner/Priest of Topaz

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By Gary Topping– (This article originally was published in the Intermountain Catholic on 10/9/2015 and is reprinted here to follow up on other articles published within the last week on…

Three practical steps to address homelessness in Utah

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By Jean Welch Hill– For the past two years, state, Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City leaders have been meeting to address homelessness in Utah over the long term. …

Drinking Beer with Protestants 500 Years Post-Reformation

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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A Catholic, a Lutheran, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, and an Episcopalian, all sit down for a drink together. Sounds like the beginning of a corny joke,…

The moral imperative to vote

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By Jean Welch Hill– As a 3rd Congressional District constituent, I am torn between the candidates.  Watching the Utah Debate Commission debate on television and listening to the A Better…