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STEPHEN COPELAND
AUTHOR & STORYTELLER
The spiritual insight of Charlie Brown
My dad has always loved Charles M. Schultz’s 1965 Christmas classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Growing up, he’d make our family watch it...
To Find, to Lose: to Create
Thomas Merton once famously wrote in No Man Is an Island, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” For...
Franciscan Media: The Guiding Light of Spiritual Doubt
You’ve probably heard the phrase “Doubting Thomas.” The phrase’s origins hearken back to John’s Gospel, where, after Christ’s...
Franciscan Media: Biking Down Davidson through Waves
Anyone who knows me also know how much I love to bike around the city. I fell in love with city living several years ago and have not...
Steps and Monasteries
I believe all of life is sacred. Each patch of grass, rocky path, piece of tile, sandy shore, carpet square, clunk of dirt, grocery...
Franciscan Media: Adopting a Contemplative Mantra
“God has no rivals, and therefore as a child of God, neither do I,” the monk taught. I was on retreat attending a class at Saint Meinrad...
Franciscan Media: Our Return to Holy Saturday
Now that Lent has long passed, and Easter celebrations have ended, we return to Holy Saturday, the space in which most of our mental,...
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