Musings from the High Desert
Fr. Gabriel Rochelle shares from his wide range of insights, imaginings, and interests.
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Books That Touch Your Heart and Mind (Part 9)
Fr Gabriel turns to his great love, Biblical studies, and ...
Fr Gabriel turns to his great love, Biblical studies, and discusses two books from the mid-20th Century that were and continue to be deeply influential in his life. These were written by the British scholar C. H. Dodd, who was called the greatest New Test
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Books That Touch Your Heart and Mind (Part 8)
After some notes to explain the genuine meaning of Inter-Religious ...
After some notes to explain the genuine meaning of Inter-Religious Dialogue, Fr Gabriel turns to a 2010 book by the Dalai Lama, Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together, which is about 40% autobiography, 40% interpretat
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Books That Touch Your Heart and Mind (Part 7)
The Psalms are the beloved hymnbook of Israel and the ...
The Psalms are the beloved hymnbook of Israel and the Church. They are also the inspiration for much of the prayer life of the church, both east and west. In this broadcast, Fr. Gabriel explores the literary structure of the Psalms, which helps to explain
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Books That Touch Your Heart and Mind (Part 6)
In this broadcast, Fr. Gabriel discusses one of his favorite ...
In this broadcast, Fr. Gabriel discusses one of his favorite books on spiritual care from the Lutheran tradition. He has cherished this book for some forty years now and used it in his former teaching life at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. It
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Books That Touch Your Heart and Mind (Part 5)
In this segment, Fr. Gabriel muses momentarily on his own ...
In this segment, Fr. Gabriel muses momentarily on his own intellectual history of reading, and then discusses one of his all-time favorite books, which he has read many times: Fr Alexander Schmemann's For the Life of the World.
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New Paths for Christians Engaging Israel: Images of Israel
In this follow-up to the introduction to New Paths, Fr ...
In this follow-up to the introduction to New Paths, Fr Gabriel gives an overview of the six units of the course itself—Holiness, Covenant, Rejection, Conflict, Hope, and Encounter—and invites listeners to discern how and where they might utilize this cour
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New Paths: Christians Engaging Israel
In this episode outside the current theme of books, Fr. ...
In this episode outside the current theme of books, Fr. Gabriel talks about the backing institutions and the rationale for a new adult course for Christian churches on Israel, past and present and, to some extent, future. This course has been in the makin
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Books That Touch Your Heart and Mind (Part 4)
This week, Fr. Gabriel looks at the work of Boris ...
This week, Fr. Gabriel looks at the work of Boris Pasternak, the great Russian poet whose one novel, Doctor Zhivago, was made into a movie in the mid-sixties, and both book and movie remain enduring classics. Fr. Gabriel spoke about the novel at the Brani
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Books That Touch Your Heart and Mind (Part 3)
This time Fr. Gabriel turns from the writers of the ...
This time Fr. Gabriel turns from the writers of the other Europe, symbolized by Bohumil Hrabal's work which he spoke about last time, back to the Church. Again looking at the life and overall work of one particular person, he turns to his favorite writer
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Books That Touch Your Heart and Mind (Part 2)
In this segment, Fr. Gabriel talks more about his fascination ...
In this segment, Fr. Gabriel talks more about his fascination with language and then moves into a consideration of the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, best known in the United States for his novels Closely Watched Trains, I Served the King of England, and To
