Self-Love Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/self-love/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:46:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Self-Love Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/self-love/ 32 32  The Contemporary Fashion of Loving Ourselves https://mind-at-work.com/the-contemporary-fashion-of-loving-ourselves/ Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:23:19 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5448 I recently heard a sermon in my parish that encouraged parishioners to love themselves. It was not the first time I heard such a statement made from the pulpit, but my reaction was the same as before—disappointment. That was understandable.  After all, in my childhood, youth, adulthood, and middle age, the references to self I [...]

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]]> Theology Confounded https://mind-at-work.com/theology-confounded/ Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:49:25 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1887 A friend recently recommended a slender spiritual book, Poverty of Spirit. Written by Johannes Baptist Metz, a German Catholic theologian, it was first published in 1968 and republished thirty years later. What I found most interesting in reading it is that, though it contains genuine insights, it is also self-contradictory and misleading. The reason, I [...]

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