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Art Blumberg

Art Blumberg holds a Master of Divinity degree and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies degree from the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago. He is currently working on a project involving reflections and the connections between Rumi, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, St. Thomas the Apostle and the Holy Spirit. 

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A person pushes an older woman in a wheelchair in a grassy field, with the sun shining upon them, in an outside setting. (Unsplash/Dominik Lange)

The grace of forgetfulness

Soul Seeing: "What does it mean to always hear these prayers as if they had never been heard before? Forgetfulness seems a diminishment, a decline, yet here it is a grace," writes Art Blumberg.

The Western Wall and the Dome of Rock in Jerusalem. (Unsplash/Anton Mislawsky)

What a convert hears and sees at the Western Wall

As both a Catholic convert and ethnic Jew, Art Blumberg reflects on complicated spiritual realities on pilgrimage to the Western Wall.

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A postmodern Catholic divinity student lets go for a moment of grace

Soul Seeing: Something wonderful happens. I am entranced, mesmerized. Ganesha's eyes seem to stare back as the chanting wafts over me. I slide into its rhythm. One voice, then another, then two together. Not trying to understand. Just breathing. Just being.

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