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The Elijah I Want

August 1, 2025 Irwin Keller

Elijah’s contest, by Lucas Cranach.

It seems I had to come to Ireland to be reintroduced to the prophet Elijah. For more than a week this summer, I have been on retreat at a Catholic hermitage in County Sligo run by a tiny community of Carmelite sisters and brothers. The Carmelites see the prophet Elijah as their spiritual inspiration and as the founder of their order. They call him Saint Elijah, and I happened to be there on Saint Elijah’s day.

What is the kind of prophet we need now? Can we find that prophet? Can we be that prophet?

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