David Sandel

Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Learning from Jonah The Lord God called to Adam and asked him, “Where are you?” Adam answered, “I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid, because I was naked. So I hid myself.”...

Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Veni, sancte, spiritus I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. And then just a few days later, while with two of his friends on the road to Emmaus: Beginning with Moses and all the...

Saturday, May 18, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Asking more of politics than politics can deliver What does it mean to say our cultural foundations are shaking? David Brooks finds an idea in a book by Alexandre Lefebvre, about how we see the world. We avoid the big questions...

Friday, May 17, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The weather in Caesarea Outside on the patio our basil is growing to beat the band. On the other side of the walk behind our apartments an ancient juniper touts two green branches,  somehow growing out of a gnarly, mostly dead...

Thursday, May 16, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A day in the life with Jesus I give them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they and their world may know that you...

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Uniformity and diversity Holy Father, keep them in your name, the name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. Driving in Austin traffic I expect, or at least hope for, uniformity of...

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Story from the front Who is like the Lord, our God, who is enthroned on high and looks upon the heavens and the earth below? Our friend’s newsletter told this story about a missionary helping program...

Monday, May 13, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Doctor my eyes In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world. My right eye sees only blurs, and today cataract surgery will eliminate those blurs. I hope. This weekend beautiful northern lights were visible...

Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 12, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Exploring your memories God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. On this Ascension Sunday, we feel the liminal space around us. Jesus was, was not, and was again. He walked...

Saturday, May 11, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jesus and the disinherited The Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God. In 1949, the year Margaret and I were born, Howard Thurman wrote Jesus and the Disinherited. Trying...