A walk on the beach can help you develop a whole new appreciation of scripture.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Waves, crashing
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Tags: ocean waves, Psalm 18, Sonoma Coast State Park
Today’s find: Shut-down
Yosemite is beautiful this time of year. Or so I hear.
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Tags: Acts of the Apostles, Government Shut-down, St. Paul, Yosemite, Yosemite National Park
Today’s find: Master of disguise
In today’s gospel reading, we hear people saying of Jesus, ‘The Devil made him do it.’
That’s a loose translation, of course: The conversation in question preceded Flip Wilson’s famous comedy routine by about 2,000 years.
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Tags: Beelzebul, Flip Wilson, James Martin S.J., Jesus, Philippians, St. Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises, Time magazine
Today’s find: Habakkuk
Apparently, I’ve got something in common with the prophet Habakkuk.
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Tags: Guardian Angels, Habakkuk, Jessica Powers
Today’s find: Rubble. Blessed rubble.
If you live long enough, chances are many of the things you hold dear will eventually crumble before your eyes. And there can be a profound blessing in that rubble.
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Tags: Destruction of the Temple, Haggai, Rubble, Temple, Wailing Wall
Today’s find: Neophytes
We marked the feast of St. Matthew on Saturday, and reportedly, that title – ‘saint’ – would have surprised most of the people from polite society who knew the man in his day.
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Tags: Conversion of St. Matthew, St. Bede, St. Matthew, Venerable Bede
Today’s find: Hymns
One of the things I love about St. Paul—the writer—is that he’s not afraid to ‘borrow’ great material from other sources.
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Tags: 1 Timothy, Christology, Gospel, hymn, Paul's letter to the Philippians, Philippians, St. Paul
Today’s find: Recalculating
I take a certain smug self-satisfaction in ignoring the instructions from the GPS when making my way through the neighborhood at the beginning of a trip.
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Tags: Christ the Light Cathedral, Garmin, GPS, Kairos Prison Ministry
Today’s find: Abelard
One of my favorite preachers and spiritualists—Franciscan Fr. Richard Rohr—made me a offer I couldn’t refuse today: a free download of his recent webcast on ‘Yes, and…’ spirituality.
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Tags: Abelard, Abelard and Heloise, Center for Action and Contemplation, Peter Abelard, Richard Rohr, Sic et Non
Today’s find: In search of humility
It’s rather unseemly to write about humility, don’t you think? I mean, really: If you’re writing something you expect another person to read, you’re inevitably drawing attention to yourself, right?
Where’s the humility in that?
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Tags: Brian Doyle, Give Us This Day, Humility
