Category Archives: Loss

Loss: Our Pets–Holding on and Letting Go

Posted on October 6, 2015 by admin

This past Sunday we celebrated St. Francis of Assisi who was an Italian Catholic friar most associated as the Saint of the Animals and the Earth. He is believed to have been able to communicate with other species and was … Continue reading →

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Loss: Losing the Conversation

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Bob Patrick

I watched several social media conversations unfold this past weekend about the mass murder at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.  They went something like this: Person A:  If those students had all had guns this wouldn’t have happened. Person B: … Continue reading →

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Loss: A Lose-Lose Situation

Posted on October 4, 2015 by admin

As a transition from our last theme, Justice, to our current theme, Loss, I offer  words from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “Between the World and Me.” In this book, which is written as a letter to his teenage son, Coates shares … Continue reading →

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