Gentle Reign

Reflections on my life as a Christian songwriter..."remembering into the future." - by Rory Cooney

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Office and charism, prophets and martyrs (B14O)

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The readings Sunday triangulate a reflection on living in the truth of God’s word in a world that can be hostile to its hearing. In the ca...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

SongStories 46: Turn Around (GIA, 2015)

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In the late winter of 2012, a year before I started writing my little Lenten book Change Our Hearts: Daily Meditations for Lent , I was as...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Healing diabolical envy (B13O)

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Philosopher, anthropologist, and theologian René Girard teaches that what the human race needed to be saved from is the inevitability of t...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Talitha koumi — healing and equality 2 (B13O)

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The story of the woman with the hemorrhage uses the literary device of an inclusio , that is, the entire story falls within the context of...

Healing and equality in the dominion of God — 1

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There are some extraordinary claims made in the readings Sunday.  Hearing them in a couple of different translations made them even more rad...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Calming the Storm (B12O)

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The beautiful readings this weekend always remind me of a song I wrote almost 30 years ago called "Safety Harbor." My friends at...
Friday, June 12, 2015

The mystical mythic mustard seed - B11O

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"To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it?" Sunday's gospel gives us two parables fo...
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