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  • Emmaus: Making Faith Sense of Mental Health, Part Three

    Emmaus: Making Faith Sense of Mental Health, Part Three
    May 21 2025
    May is mental health awareness month. Mental health is an important issue in sports and especially elite level soccer. As a chaplain, I believe that Christian faith can help with mental health challenges and struggles, but I think sometimes we don’t understand or see the different stories and tools and resources that are needed or […]
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    26 m
  • Emmaus: Making Faith Sense of Mental Health, Part Two

    Emmaus: Making Faith Sense of Mental Health, Part Two
    May 14 2025
    May is usually carries an emphasis on mental health. Mental health is a massive issue in professional sports, especially soccer. So, as a chaplain, I have been asking, “how can we integrate more of our Christian faith so that it helps with our mental health?” I think certain texts in the Bible stand out to […]
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    25 m
  • Emmaus: Making Faith Sense of Mental Health, Part One

    Emmaus: Making Faith Sense of Mental Health, Part One
    May 7 2025
    I have podcasted before on The Emmaus Road as a biblical text that helps us to make sense of grief, but as Luke 24:13-35 is one of my favorite texts, it has grown on me a bit more with some new and different insights and I wanted to revisit it again during this month of […]
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    22 m
  • The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 137

    The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 137
    Apr 30 2025
    Psalm 137 is one of those parts of the Bible that can make someone cringe if we don’t look deeper into the text and historical context…known as an “imprecatory psalm” is calls about a curse for a particular city and its people. Can we do that as Christians? It’s a little bit longer of a […]
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    13 m
  • The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 134

    The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 134
    Apr 23 2025
    Psalm 134 is a song that would have been sung by worshippers as they were leaving the temple in Jerusalem and are blessing the Levite workers who remain there readying the temple for the next day. In the Soccer Psalm version from my recent book, I’ve imagined Psalm 134 to come out like a song […]
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    7 m
  • The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 22

    The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 22
    Apr 16 2025
    Today, on the podcast, we look at Psalm 22 in both the Bible and the Soccer Psalm from my recent book. Psalm 22 is the most-oft quoted psalm in the New Testament. All four Gospel writers talk of Jesus saying the opening lines from the cross. The psalm gives language to a person who feels […]
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    15 m
  • The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 2

    The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 2
    Apr 9 2025
    Today, on the podcast, we continue going through The Soccer Psalms. I read the 2nd Psalm and Soccer Psalm from my recent book, and offer a reflection and mediation on understanding that there is evil in the world. How do we reconcile that evil with a God who is supposedly “good”? And the fact that […]
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    9 m
  • The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 1

    The Soccer Psalms – Psalm 1
    Apr 2 2025
    Today, on the podcast, I read—Psalm 1 and Soccer Psalm 1—from my recent book, The Soccer Psalms. In the reflection and mediation questions, we consider what it looks like to live a life as a footballer and as a person that follows a road which seeks out the pathway of God. Psalm 1 is the […]
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    12 m
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