Bill Toner SJ
Images of God
August 18, 2023
BILL TONER SJ :: Our 'God concept' may become an impediment in our spiritual lives. So how should we imagine God, if God doesn't 'exist' as other things exist?
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Living with remorse
April 5, 2023
BILL TONER SJ :: We can judge ourselves harshly and be plagued for years by the thought of past acts we are ashamed of. Should we not cut ourselves some...
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In search of spirituality
December 5, 2022
BILL TONER SJ :: A spirituality of detachment is about creating the conditions for communicating with God – or rather, for allowing God to communicate with us.
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Why did God do that?
November 18, 2021
BILL TONER SJ :: Christians needn't look at misfortunes as willed by God; best to see God accompanying us through the randomness of life.
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God in my breathing
August 20, 2021
BILL TONER SJ :: Indian Jesuit Tony de Mello showed us how to pay attention to our breathing and why this is a valuable form of prayer for everyone
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Desolation and grace
May 25, 2021
BILL TONER SJ :: It is not always easy to discern whether dark times come from the good spirit or the bad. What matters is how we react to them
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The human mind – a glimpse of the divine?
March 22, 2021
BILL TONER :: Faith and the one truly mysterious thing in life – our own human mind, particularly our own consciousness
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The two gardeners
January 12, 2021
BILL TONER SJ :: God resembles the gardener who nurses sick plants back to health rather than the gardener who pulls them up in order to keep everything neat
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Moving beyond the old battles between science and religion
November 18, 2020
GERALDINE MOONEY SIMMIE :: Real change in our world will require moving away from the hyper-rationalism that shows in both science and religion
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Spirituality after Einstein
November 10, 2020
BILL TONER SJ :: The insights of Einstein have changed our understanding of the whole universe, but this does not put paid to spirituality.
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