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July 23, 2025

A Forgotten Anniversary–Again!

Jeanne and I visited our friends Suzy and Michael in Florida over the weekend. They...

July 20, 2025

Anna’s Promise and the Power of Love

In spite of my love of and occasional success with flowers and plants, I have...

July 16, 2025

Remembering a Friend After a Decade

I was reminded by email a couple of days ago that it has been a...

July 15, 2025

Finding the Thing with Feathers

Anyone who has ever stepped inside a Catholic church more than once for a mass...

July 13, 2025

The Good Samaritan and Humility

The Proper 10 Year C gospel from Luke is one of Jesus’s most beloved parables....

July 11, 2025

Death is Inevitable

One of my most effective attention-getters in any given class is to point out to...

July 08, 2025

A Faith Cheapened by Fear

Jeanne was away for most of the last ten days with her sister in Brooklyn...

July 06, 2025

Listening to the Invisible People

Today's reading from the Jewish scriptures contains many powerful lessons that remain relevant thousands of...

July 04, 2025

The United States is Not a Christian Nation

Christianity, or any branch of it, loses its Christian character when its self-proclaimed supporters outnumber...

July 01, 2025

There are Two Kinds of People . . .

I ran an informal experiment on Facebook not long ago, the point of which was...

June 2025

June 29, 2025

Did Jesus Care About Family Values?

Throughout the gospel lectionary readings in Ordinary Time, Jesus regularly says surprising things that contradict...

June 25, 2025

The Most Important and Influential Literary Character

Some time ago I read the first few pages of Greg Epstein’s Good without God....

June 24, 2025

Making Things Difficult

A couple of weeks ago in the morning I was greeted in the driveway with...

June 22, 2025

As the Deer Longs for Streams of Water

Today's lectionary readings contain two of my favorites, both from the Jewish scriptures. The story...

June 19, 2025

There Is No One But Us

As I continue to work through my next book project that has been on the...

June 17, 2025

Which Sport Does the World’s Most Interesting Man Prefer?

My brother and I stay in contact most regularly on Facebook, where he had the...

June 15, 2025

How to be Good

I'm re-working a full draft of my next book project--Nice Work If You Can Get...

June 12, 2025

Is God a Helicopter Parent?

When you've been together with someone for thirty-seven years, being creative for that person's birthday...

June 09, 2025

A Force of Nature’s Birthday Is Today!

Today is Jeanne's birthday. It's an important one as she begins a new decade. Last...

June 08, 2025

Pentecost: Big Bird is In the House

The Day of Pentecost, next to Christmas and Easter, is undoubtedly the biggest single day...

June 06, 2025

Planted By the Streams of Water

Pastor Dan, the interim pastoral caretaker of the Lutheran church that Jeanne attends (and I...

June 03, 2025

The Terrain of the Sacred

In her spiritual memoir Still, Lauren Winner tells the story of a conversation between poet...

June 01, 2025

On the Art of Discussion

I'm currently reading through my book Nice Work If You Can Get It for the first time...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

How Alasdair MacIntyre Changed How I Teach Ethics

Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most important philosophers of his generation, died last week at...

May 27, 2025

What Mitch Albom Taught Me About the Gospels

Truth be Told A week or so ago Jeanne needed to go to a department...

May 25, 2025

Is Our Experiment in Democracy Failing?

Memorial Day is a time to honor those who have made sacrifices over the years,...

May 22, 2025

Wanting to Be Healed

In a perfect world, I would never give a written final exam in any class...

May 20, 2025

Faculty Workshops and the Muppets

That's a wrap for another academic year, number 34 since I walked across a stage...

May 18, 2025

Great Advice for Graduates: God’s Will, and Flipping a Coin

Dear Graduates... Today is graduation day at Providence College, where I just finished my thirty-first...

May 15, 2025

The President and the Cult of Ignorance

It was about five years ago, in the height of the pandemic during the closing...

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