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Advice that Saint Francis Never Gave

There is a saying attributed to Saint Francis that I have heard frequently over more...

November 2025

November 30, 2025

Advent is Here–All Things are Become New

I have said many times that Advent is my favorite liturgical season--this year it promises...

September 2025

September 21, 2025

What If I’m Wrong?

Starting college at age eighteen, three thousand miles away from home, might have been daunting...

August 2025

August 22, 2025

The Punctuation of the Spirit

In my life-long spiritual journey, the decade of my twenties was the charismatic decade. No,...

July 2025

July 29, 2025

God is Non-Binary

My baseline criterion for whether a particular class has gone well is to answer the...

August 2024

August 27, 2024

You have Permission to be Joyful

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:...

May 2024

May 10, 2024

She Opens Her Mouth with Wisdom: A Mother’s Day Reflection

Sunday is Mother's Day--it also happens to be Ascension Sunday, so this weekend gets a...

May 04, 2024

Weaponizing the Bible

The final meeting of my honors colloquium on Michel de Montaigne was last Thursday. It...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

Your Comfort Zone Is Not a Sacred Space

In an interview with CNN a few Easters ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said this about...

April 17, 2024

What are God’s Pronouns?

RMy baseline criterion for whether a particular class has gone well is to answer the...

April 04, 2024

The Rapture or a Random Harvest?

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

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December 08, 2023

No Perception is Immaculate

I have taught philosophy in Catholic higher education for more that thirty years as a...

November 2023

November 24, 2023

How to Celebrate the Season Like a Real American

Today is Black Friday, the unfortunate beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Apparently in service...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

What Atheists and Theists Can Agree On

If God is both all-good and all-powerful, why is there so much evil in the...

October 29, 2023

Halloween Memories

It’s Halloween week!!–one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends...

October 24, 2023

My Relationship with the Word of God

My two sabbatical book projects have, without my explicitly planning it, turned out to be...

August 2023

August 27, 2023

The Great Homesickness We Could Never Shake Off

The first draft of my first sabbatical book project is completed, minus the introduction and...

July 2023

July 08, 2023

What We Can Learn about Trust from a Corgi

It's hard to believe that our corgi Bovina, the love and center of Jeanne's and...

July 02, 2023

Can We Negotiate With God?

Today's reading from the Jewish scriptures is Genesis 22, the well-known and infamous story of...

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June 15, 2023

Twenty Years Ago, I Spent Father’s Day in Cuba

Twenty years ago I spent Father's Day in Cuba, part of a trip that changed...

June 13, 2023

Walking Away from Jesusland

In our never-ending search for excellent police dramas, Jeanne and I watched the first season...

June 02, 2023

Reading the Bible as Literarily (not literally) True

Last week I participated in a two-day end-of-the-academic-year workshop with a dozen fellow faculty in...

May 2023

May 14, 2023

She Opens Her Mouth With Wisdom . . . Her Childen Rise Up and Call Her Blessed

Because of the quirks of the calendar, the anniversary of my father's death and Mother's...

March 2023

March 02, 2023

Getting Back to the Basics

This coming Sunday's gospel gets us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to...

January 2023

January 22, 2023

When the Well Runs Dry

Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Of Halloween, Baptists, and Socialism

Halloween is coming–one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends...

October 09, 2022

We Don’t Need to Protect God

Human beings never behave so badly as when they believe they are protecting God. Barbara Brown...

August 2022

August 18, 2022

Die Before You Die

For many, the raising of Lazarus is Jesus' signature miracle, even though it is only...

August 07, 2022

This Book Changed My Life: Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead”

I asked my Facebook friends a while ago to list three or four books that...

July 2022

July 23, 2022

Negotiating with God

I have the privilege of giving the sermon today at Trinity Episcopal Church in Pawtuxet,...

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