Category Archives: faith
Baseball and My Life: A Spiritual Journey
“Baseball is a curious anomaly in American life. It seems to have been ingrained in people in their childhood…. Baseball is, after all, a boy’s game, and children are innocent of evil. So even adults who are prejudiced revert to … Continue reading
Filed under Baseball, Batlimore Orioles, faith
Opening Day and Holy Week
“To connect faith and the national pastime is not to argue that baseball is something more than a game; it is to affirm that baseball is a game.” Christopher H. Evans and William R. Herzog II, The Faith of 50 Million … Continue reading
Holy Week and the Outcasts
Sieger Köder “Barmherzigkeit” “Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Pastoral Care, PTSD, Religion
Not Alone: The Real Warriors Campaign
“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.” William Tecumseh Sherman When I returned from Iraq in February 2008 it began the most difficult … Continue reading
Filed under faith, iraq,afghanistan, Military, PTSD, Tour in Iraq
They didn’t Pray Enough: Pat Robertson’s latest “Patwah”
“If enough people were praying, [God] would intervene. You could pray, Jesus stilled the storm, you could still storms.” Pat Robertson on the 700 Club “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Politics, Religion
Faith for those that Struggle with Faith
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Religion
Spring Training and Lent 2012
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” Johann Friedrich Von Schiller The season of Lent invariably coincides with Spring Training, a fact that is not lost upon me. I love Spring Training and find that with … Continue reading
Filed under Baseball, christian life, faith
A Memorial Service for HM1 David Graney and the End of a Long Week
This has been a busy week. It began with an unexpected emergency to baptize the grandchild of a dear friend injured in a terrible household accident. I drove from North Carolina on Sunday to Virginia Beach and returned Monday evening. … Continue reading
Filed under faith, Military, remembering friends, shipmates and veterans
