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May 2018

May 31, 2018

I Believe in the Prosperity Gospel

Maybe two of you who are reading this have opened it because of the title,...

May 01, 2017

Reading a List of the Names of People Who Lived a Long, Long Time Ago and Being Inspired By It

Today I read 1 Chronicles 2, which is nothing more than a list of names...

April 2017

April 17, 2017

Sweeter Far Thy Face to See: An Easter Reflection, John 20.1-18

The Risen Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene, Rembrandt Oh Jesus! To collapse in grief, in the...

March 2017

March 02, 2017

Alternative Lenten Disciplines (Not for Everyone)

We need to get creative about our Lenten disciplines. The annual giving-up-chocolate-for-Lent is a fairly...

February 2016

February 01, 2016

Would You Rather Find Jesus Alive or Dead?

In the upcoming movie Risen, billed as a story about "the manhunt that changed the...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Where Does (Your) Faith Come From?

Working as I do in the wood between the worlds of religion, I am...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Considering Wheaton’s Actions: Sympathetic or Simplistic?

Larycia Hawkins, employed by my alma mater, has stirred up a hornets’ nest of political,...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Take a Spiritual Holiday

This week, I had an unusual conversation with an old friend. We had met over...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Loving Bartholomew, the Nobody

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the...

August 24, 2015

Examining the Call of Women to Christian Leadership

If we accept N.T. Wright’s description of the gospel in Simply Good News—as good news...

August 17, 2015

To Be Patient Is to Be Free

For many who have come from a middle-class American Evangelical background with solid, godly roots,...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Jesus Loves Us Down to Our Toes: A Maundy Thursday Reflection

In the Gospel of John, the focus on the Passover meal as described in the...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

How to Be a (Better) Protestant in Five Easy Steps

Reformation Day doesn’t make me giddy, but it does afford me the opportunity to think...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

Cancer and Divine Immanence

Last week I read Michael Hannon’s reflection on “Cancer and Divine Transcendence” and simply could...

September 05, 2013

A Single Great Prayer

He prays unceasingly who combines prayer with necessary duties and duties with prayer. Only in...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

A Traveler’s Song

I am deeply appreciative of the contributions of some powerful contemporary Christian authors (like N.T....

August 15, 2013

Impossibilities

“It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find...

August 06, 2013

We Are Saved by a Work

I’ve been pondering a troublesome passage—James’ harangue about works (James 2.18-26). It’s not a passage...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Expiration Date: A Short Story

This is an experiment. This is only an experiment. If this were not an experiment,...

July 01, 2013

Mean St. Francis

I’ve never seen a St. Francis statue like the one that sits in our back...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

A Trilogy of Celebrations: 1 + 1 + 1

As a child, I only got two religious holidays—Christmas and Easter—and even then, they were...

May 01, 2013

My House: God’s Favorite Place on Earth

(A Book Review) “Living after you have died is strange.” So Lazarus tells us. An...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

Becoming Neo-Pascalian: The First Step of Make-Believe Faith

We are left with this all-important question: how do we get faith? How do we...

April 09, 2013

Making Room for the In-Laws

Marriage is the ultimate melting pot. Unless you’re one of those whose families knew each...

April 02, 2013

Easter: Tripping Over Joy

The Easter season has only just begun. It will go on for another seven weeks,...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

Loving Mrs. Turpin, Loving the Grotesque

If I were less ordinary, reading Flannery O’Connor would be more fun. As it is,...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

(One of) My History Hang-ups

Any Star Trek fans out there? The Original Series? Do you remember the episode called...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

I Can Speak Whale: Interrupted by Moby-Dick

Pascal by day, but Melville by night. No wonder I can’t get a New Year’s...

December 2012

December 11, 2012

Ad(vent)oration

The darkness of December weighs heavily. Despite the glories of living in Colorado, with its...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

According to a Certain Studious Old Man, Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear

I read the Psalms, and I imagine you do too. Many read the Psalms when...