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October 2020

October 11, 2020

The Gospel According to Marilynne Robinson

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. Marilynne...

October 08, 2020

Bombing Raids and a Spark of the Divine

Perhaps a novel whose main character is the squadron leader for World War II bombing...

October 04, 2020

It’s Blessing of the Animals Sunday . . . but who is really getting the blessing?

Today is Blessing of the Animals Sunday, which this year is bittersweet for me. My...

October 01, 2020

Take a Deep Breath

Jeanne and I did not watch the presidential "debate" on Tuesday evening, choosing instead to...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

Speaking the Truth in a Culture of Lies

Just short of a year ago, I spent a Saturday morning listening to a lecture...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

When a Child of the Universe Dies

One of the few bright spots during the past months of COVID-19 seclusion and insanity...

July 15, 2020

Remembering a Good Friend

A very good friend of mine, a man whom I only knew for the final...

July 05, 2020

Is Your Burden Light?

Teaching for twenty-five years in an interdisciplinary program with colleagues from a multitude of disciplines...

June 2020

June 12, 2020

God Doesn’t Own Us . . . God Loves Us

If you got to choose the manner of your death, what would your choice be?...

June 09, 2020

I Got the Little Red Haired Girl–and it’s her birthday!

It’s Jeanne’s birthday today! It is my blog custom on her birthday to post a...

June 05, 2020

From Solitude to God

The building looked like the love child of a logic problem and a crossword puzzle....

June 02, 2020

God and Darwin have a conversation about diversity

A number of years ago, during a public forum on my campus focused on steps...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

A Pentecost Reflection: Sometimes Fast Food Isn’t Good Enough

Pentecost celebrates one of the high points in the Christian liturgical calendar, the coming of...

May 20, 2020

What if God isn’t Perfect?

One of the central units in my General Ethics class is titled “Does ethics have...

May 18, 2020

We Are On Our Own

In preparation for my next book project, a teaching memoir tentatively titled Nice Work If You...

May 12, 2020

This is the Way the Semester Ends

During the early weeks of the semester in our “Apocalypse” seminar, my teaching colleague from...

May 05, 2020

Coronavirus Seclusion and “Amazing Grace”

In the interdisciplinary program I teach in and used to direct, the first semester faculty...

May 04, 2020

Emerging from the Tomb

My newest online publication at "Bearings Online," link below, reflects on the appropriateness of coronavirus...

May 02, 2020

Sheep in the Streets: A Reflection for Good Shepherd Sunday

As horrific and tragic as most Covid-19 stories are, every once in a while these...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

Why Certainty and Faith Don’t Belong Together

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

April 26, 2020

Facing Coronavirus “What Ifs?”

The final week of the strangest academic semester of my life begins tomorrow. As I...

April 23, 2020

Jesus, Cleopas, and George Have a Conversation About Hope

“Now abide faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” These words...

April 22, 2020

On Earth Day, I’m Wondering: Is Planet Earth a Loser?

My youngest son was born in 1981 and grew up as Americans began, for the...

April 21, 2020

Why No Sports During the Coronavirus is a Spiritual Challenge

I’ve written more than once in the last month about how the “Apocalypse” colloquium I...

April 18, 2020

9/11, the Coronavirus, and Becoming a Better Person

Everyone beyond a certain age can remember clearly what they were doing eighteen-and-a-half years ago...

April 09, 2020

Actually, He Died

Several Christmas Eves ago, Jeanne, Justin and I were invited to share dinner with a...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

Loving Yourself During Coronavirus Seclusion (and Lent)

It has not been lost on many persons familiar with the Christian liturgical calendar that...

March 10, 2020

Do You Love Your Life?

Although I read all the time--I once told my ophthalmologist that that I read for...

March 05, 2020

When I’m Sixty-Four

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?" Paul McCartney,...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

“Custodians of each other’s well-being”–A Reflection for Valentine’s Week

Human love in the purest forms we can know it, wife and husband, parent and...

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