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July 18, 2022

Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream

I’ve been thinking a lot about end of life issues lately. Really. They seem to...

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June 07, 2022

How Should a Normal Person Approach the Bible?

I recently came across a great podcast called “The Bible for Normal People,” hosted by...

May 2022

May 23, 2022

The Story I am Willing to be Wrong About

My political scientist Dominican priest friend and colleague, who was my teaching partner in our...

May 19, 2022

Making Darkness and Silence your Friends

Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again. “The Sound of Silence”...

May 03, 2022

The Gospel According to Compost

Alas, and did my Savior bleed, and did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Organizing Books is My Charism

Last weekend, Jeanne and I took a quick trip to Greenville, South Carolina to attend...

April 20, 2022

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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

March 2022

March 07, 2022

A Stranger (Protestant) in a Strange Land (Catholic)

Last Wednesday the student in front of me in line at the little on campus...

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January 27, 2022

Raised on Original Sin

It hardly seems possible that I am now in the tenth calendar year of writing...

January 15, 2022

Jesus and Adult Beverages

Miracles come in all shapes and sizes, both unmistakable and inexplicable. Anne Lamott writes that...

January 12, 2022

Throwing Away the Image of God

At the beginning of a recent episode of “Consider This,” NPR’s daily afternoon news podcast,...

January 04, 2022

Getting Atheists and Theists on the Same Page

One of the texts that I regularly use in my ethics classes is a collection...

January 02, 2022

In the Beginning was the Word

In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word was made flesh,...

November 2021

November 28, 2021

What Advent is Saying to Us: Stay Awake!

Today is the first day of the new Christian liturgical year--the First Sunday of Advent....

November 26, 2021

How to Celebrate Christmas Like a Real American

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

November 09, 2021

In Search of a More Nuanced and Interesting Faith

Fans of Rachel Held Evans' work are welcoming the publication of her final book, Wholehearted...

November 02, 2021

The Tweet of God

As is the case with many of the things in my life, my knowledge of...

October 2021

October 31, 2021

It’s Time to Exorcise Halloween Jesus

It's Halloween. I regularly post around this time of the year about how Halloween is...

October 16, 2021

It’s My Brother’s Birthday!

My big brother, whom I unfortunately seldom see in the flesh, is celebrating his birthday...

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 20, 2021

Dear Evangelical Christians: You’re Ruining the Brand

In “Slander,” from her latest collection of essays, What Are We Doing Here?, Marilynne Robinson writes...

June 2021

June 27, 2021

It’s Time to Get Back to Work

As we continue to move toward "normalcy" after close to a year-and-a-half of pandemic shut...

June 19, 2021

A Father’s Day Reflection: What My Dad Taught Me about Reading and Belief

One of the most important things an author has to write when a book is...

June 17, 2021

Faith Is About Asking the “What If?” Questions

In Lies We Believe Abut God, Wm. Paul Young (author of The Shack) tells the story of...

June 10, 2021

What Do You Do When the Well Runs Dry?

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

June 04, 2021

God is Doing the Most that God Can Do

Frank Tupper, an important Baptist theologian who argued that God is in control of very...

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...

April 2021

April 24, 2021

The Bible is Not the Word of God

Either the Bible is true or it isn’t, either it’s God’s inspired inerrant word or...

April 13, 2021

The Tools of Lifetime Learning

My father, an itinerant Baptist minister, once told me about a plaque on the preacher’s...

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