There I was, waiting in line at Gus’s market with a few groceries for the evening’s supper, when a man about my age came in, saw me...

“Fuck around and find out”   One Sunday afternoon, a year or two ago, I sat on the front stoop of the rectory, tired after a morning’s...

If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet...

“Baptism doesn’t play – but it does promise”   † “ Daddy was an old-time preacher man. He preached the word of God throughout the land....

If you, Lord, were to note what is done amiss, O Lord, who could stand? – Psalm 130:2   Selective enforcement.   Today on my...

As I write this, it is two days before the Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin, and I am preparing my sermon for the Vigil Mass of the feast,...

“All guests who arrive should be received as Christ,” says Saint Benedict in the 53rd chapter of his rule. “The superior and the...

She’s homeless, again. Her husband of a decade is a mean drunk and forced her out of the apartment that they shared for a couple of years...

† “Use your imagination, Peter!” The 1991 movie “Hook” starred Dustin Hoffman as the eponymous captain and our beloved...

Last Saturday, as you no doubt know by now, an attempt was made on the life of the former president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania....

† Theirs wasn’t a match made in heaven, Herod’s and Herodias’s. Like many marriages of the rich and powerful throughout history, theirs...

† “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Thus begins Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina. I don’t...

I heard a cry of anguish coming from the stairway leading down from Market and Van Ness to the subway. I was beginning one of my...

“If the Eucharist is just a symbol,” said Flannery O’Connor, “then to hell with it.” Flannery O’Connor, a devout Roman Catholic, was the...

I witnessed a lovely exchange between a homeless artist and two of his unbeknownst patrons. The artist lives in a tent encampment on the...

Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid, SCP Fifth Sunday of Easter B – April 28, 2024 All Saints’ Episcopal Church, San Francisco “Dude! God abides.”...

I’m keeping an eye on the Supreme Court’s deliberation on whether and how local municipalities code and enforce people sleeping outdoors....

Monday’s daily office reading from the Book of Exodus (18:13-27) spoke wisdom to me. Moses was visited by his father-in-law Jethro, who...

Fr. Daniel S.J. Scheid, SCP Third Sunday of Easter B – April 14, 2024 All Saints’ Episcopal Church, San Francisco “To Embrace Bodily...

“You have a busy schedule!” I’ve heard this many times from Haight-Ashbury parishioners who walk by our sidewalk sign or who follow All...