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Outcast outside of Us Calls forth the Outcast within Us

Posted on October 3, 2013May 10, 2022 by Michael Rose

Dean Brackley, SJ was an American Jesuit who started his career in education, a community organizer working for social justice in El Salvador. Brackley volunteered to go to the University of Central America in 1989, shortly after the murder of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he also did pastoral work in a poor…

Being More or Doing More?

Posted on November 13, 2011June 25, 2015 by Michael Rose

The wrestle with the dichotomy of being and doing comes from the emptiness that often accompanies doing religious things out of religious obligation. The idea that we have to do things for God for love, acceptance, duty, forgiveness. For many Christians this thinking sets us up for spiritual burnout. Many pastors burn out because they…