David Sandel

Monday, January 22, 2024 Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A day in the life My faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him. I had to decide this weekend whether to watch NFL playoff football games (Buffalo vs Baltimore, Green...

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 21, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Endless knowability There was this guy named Jonah. God called him to Nineveh to give those evil folks a chance to change. Jonah did his best to stay away, but here he was anyway. Nineveh was an...

Saturday, January 20, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) War and peace A man with his clothes torn and dirt on his head said to David, “Many of us have fled the battle, many of us have fallen and are dead, and among the dead are King Saul and his...

Friday, January 19, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Asylum in the desert Between this mountain and that, there must be an unclean spirit. Everyone is acting crazy. Saul went in search of David to kill him. He took three thousand men with him. David and his own men were...

Thursday, January 18, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Finding Jonathan in Dante’s Purgatorio Saul discussed his intention of killing David with his son Jonathan and with all his servants. Politics. There are always politics. Angry with David because he was praised by Saul’s own people, he became jealous and...

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbott (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Not with a whimper but a bang I am at your service to go and fight this Philistine. The lectionary follows David’s anointing with his most famous feat, killing the Philistine’s giant soldier Goliath. David collected...

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Turning away and turning back Margaret and I argue about things sometimes, usually when I’m in a bad mood. Or she is. Or we both are. Often it has to do with unfinished business, with procrastination on one or both of...

Monday, January 15, 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Pour new wine into new wineskins We read, and then talked a bit, about the first chapter of Genesis – those seven days, when God created the world and everything in it. Genesis came alive as...

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 14, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Listen to the trumpet of Jesus The Lord called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.” When God speaks, we listen. But where will God’s voice come from? Jon Meacham writes inspiring American history books. In The...

Saturday, January 13, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Glad tidings When Samuel caught sight of Saul, the Lord assured him, “This is the man of whom I told you: he is to govern my people.” Kings and presidents and rulers are chosen many ways. In America we choose our...