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April 2026

April 16, 2026

God is Change

All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting...

March 2026

March 22, 2026

Can These Bones Live?

Today is Lent 5--the gospel text is John 11, John's account of the raising of...

March 03, 2026

Angels of Change

All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting...

March 25, 2025

Lazarus and the Call to Die Before You Die

Die Before You Die Yesterday afternoon I participated in a "Post-Sabbatical Presentation" event on campus...

February 2025

February 23, 2025

What Happens When We Pray?

In her spiritual memoir Still, Lauren Winner begins a brief chapter on prayer by noting...

December 2024

December 24, 2024

Christus Natus Est: Merry Christmas

Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...

December 06, 2024

Conversations with God

I was raised by a father who claimed to have regular conversations with God. My...

July 2024

July 22, 2024

When a Word is a Complete Sentence

All of us live in a world filled with words. For academics, words are the...

April 2024

April 04, 2024

The Rapture or a Random Harvest?

Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight; Angels, descending, bring...

April 02, 2024

The Apocalypse During Apocalyptic Times

It is interesting, perhaps fitting, that the first class in my team-taught "Apocalypse: colloquium after...

July 2023

July 11, 2023

Complete Sentences in One Word

All of us live in a world filled with words. For academics, words are the...

February 2023

February 19, 2023

Longing to be Whole: A Reflection for Transfiguration Sunday

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent....

December 2022

December 23, 2022

Have Yourself a Rashomon Christmas

A few years ago, I was asked to take on a temporary administrative position for...

December 18, 2022

A Stepfather with a Questionable Pedigree

In my religious tradition, we didn’t do saints. But we did do Christmas pageants—big time....

December 07, 2022

Why Should We Be Hopeful?

Herodotus is considered to be the first true historian in the contemporary sense of the...

November 2022

November 03, 2022

Warthogs and Saints: Who Gets to be at the Front of the Line?

One of my colleagues and friends and I are beginning to construct the syllabus for...

June 2022

June 19, 2022

What To Do When It Isn’t Working

What do you do when it just isn’t working? In the life of a teacher,...

April 2022

April 17, 2022

I Will Awaken the Dawn: Some Thoughts for Easter

Our seven-month old corgi Bovina, one of the greatest joys of Jeanne’s and my life,...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

Everything Changes, Including Us. Get Used To It.

All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting...

February 08, 2022

Playing With Fire: Be Careful What You Say “Yes” To

Somewhere not long ago I heard or read that one of the top television programs...

December 2021

December 28, 2021

He Has Put Down the Mighty From Their Throne

Today on the liturgical calendar is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the day that...

December 26, 2021

Jesus Goes to the Temple, and then gets grounded

Each week for many years, Garrison Keillor told “Prairie Home Companion” listeners the news from...

December 23, 2021

Merry Christmas: Christus Natus Est

Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...

December 05, 2021

Our Reason to Hope

Jeanne got on the Amtrak early one Sunday morning not that long ago, beginning two...

November 2021

November 04, 2021

A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma

November is a month of transitions. Here in New England, we are squarely in the...

September 2021

September 23, 2021

What if God exists, but isn’t very nice?

Three weeks ago, I posted an essay that described a new course called "Faith and...

August 2021

August 14, 2021

The Coronavirus and End Times

Sometimes various elements of real life align in unexpected ways. In the Spring semester of...

July 2021

July 12, 2021

A Portly Angel with a Boston Accent

Some have entertained angels unawares Hebrews 11:2 I’ve never known what to make of angels. I...

June 2021

June 02, 2021

God is Change, so Get Used to Different

All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting...

May 2021

May 02, 2021

Perfect Love Casts Out Fear–or so we’re told

After the mass shooting in a Colorado grocery store a few weeks ago, a woman...

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