I’ve been listening to the Bible in a year podcast with Fr. Mike Schmitz. A cradle Catholic now six decades removed from the cradle, this is my first time through the entire book in this kind of linear and systematic way.
I will confess that the OT can be a challenge to slog through each day. But occasionally, I hear a passage or a phrase…
I’ve been listening to the Bible in a year podcast with Fr. Mike Schmitz. A cradle Catholic now six decades removed from the cradle, this is my first time through the entire book in this kind of linear and systematic way.
I will confess that the OT can be a challenge to slog through each day. But occasionally, I hear a passage or a phrase from antiquity that acts as a sort of loud, shrill alarm bell piercing time and space and calling to us even now, some 3000 years later. This one, the last line from the Book of Judges, seems to have special resonance today: “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
Today in the U.S. at least, we are seeing the horrific consequences of eliminating faith in God and doing “that which is right in [our] own eyes.” And Chesterton’s aphorism has become a prophecy: ‘When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”
Completely agree on the OT. My favorite part of the podcast is at the end, getting a sermon each day and an interpretation of the reading. What a great way to learn out faith.
I’ve been listening to the Bible in a year podcast with Fr. Mike Schmitz. A cradle Catholic now six decades removed from the cradle, this is my first time through the entire book in this kind of linear and systematic way.
I will confess that the OT can be a challenge to slog through each day. But occasionally, I hear a passage or a phrase from antiquity that acts as a sort of loud, shrill alarm bell piercing time and space and calling to us even now, some 3000 years later. This one, the last line from the Book of Judges, seems to have special resonance today: “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
Today in the U.S. at least, we are seeing the horrific consequences of eliminating faith in God and doing “that which is right in [our] own eyes.” And Chesterton’s aphorism has become a prophecy: ‘When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”
God save us.
Completely agree on the OT. My favorite part of the podcast is at the end, getting a sermon each day and an interpretation of the reading. What a great way to learn out faith.