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STEPHEN COPELAND
AUTHOR & STORYTELLER
St. Anthony Messenger: Panting After Peace in Prayer
As I began climbing the mountain at the Franciscan sanctuary of La Verna in central Italy, the great Franciscan theologian Bonaventure’s...
NCR: St. Francis, Kurt Vonnegut and the radical absurdity of the Incarnation
My 19-month-old pointed toward his shelf of Christmas books, "Boke?" He wanted to pick another book for me to read to him before bed,...
St. Anthony Messenger: Shalom—A Christmas Reflection
The first time I took my Southern wife to my childhood home in Indiana for the holidays, she told me she felt like she was stepping into...
NCR: Listening with Franciscan ears
I learned to listen at the Double Door Inn. Many times I'd step into that ramshackle music venue in Charlotte, North Carolina, carrying...
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