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The Lonely Pawn: On Faith, Doubt, and Meaning

A Doubting Faith Have you never felt like one of those pawns forgotten in a...

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God is Change

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

March 2026

March 25, 2026

White Privilege in the Classroom

Today I am starting a unit on race issues in my ethics class. For the...

March 15, 2026

The Problem with Substituionary Atonement

I just returned yesterday from a wonderful week with Justin in Sweden! To get back...

March 01, 2026

God So Loved The World

Today's gospel reading gets us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to remember...

February 2026

February 08, 2026

La Bella Luna: A Lunar Spirituality

Shortly before the 2013 conclave that would elect him as Pope Francis I, then Cardinal...

January 2026

January 18, 2026

Outgrowing the Need to Believe

A number of years ago, at the end of a presentation to fellow resident scholars...

January 11, 2026

A Conversation Between Jesus and Creepy John

The gospel lectionary reading for the First Sunday of Epiphay traditionally is one version of...

January 08, 2026

Faith that is Close to the Bone

Christian Wiman is a poet, essayist, memoirist, editor, and critic whose work has simultaneously challenged...

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December 28, 2025

The Chocolate Bible

Today's gospel reading is the the beautifully poetic first verses of John's gospel, staring with...

December 18, 2025

Oysters, Ballerinas, and God

There are several contemporary writers on spiritual issues and matters of faith whose work I...

November 2025

November 06, 2025

Lift Up Your Hearts

At my book launch on campus last week, when responding to a question during Q...

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October 26, 2025

Be Merciful to Me, A Sinner . . .

Today's gospel reading reminds me of an August day several years ago when the small...

October 05, 2025

He Who Increases Knowledge Increases Sorrow

Last week I posted an essay called “In Much Wisdom There is Much Grief,” inspired...

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August 07, 2025

Peeking into the Mind of God

I once led a seminar with a number of colleagues from the Honors Program as...

July 2025

July 29, 2025

God is Non-Binary

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

July 27, 2025

We Are Not Special

A regular occurrence at home Providence Friars basketball games is when, during one of the...

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 06, 2025

Listening to the Invisible People

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

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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 03, 2025

The Terrain of the Sacred

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

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April 27, 2025

Did the Early Christians Practice Socialism?

Doubt is Next to Godliness Last Friday's post imagined a conversation between Karl Marx and...

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March 14, 2025

A Return to the Problem of Evil–Part One

This week is Spring Break at my college--a week I am using to catch up...

March 02, 2025

When God Is Silent: N.T. Wright on Lament and Faith

When the Spirit Groans In a recent episode of one of my favorite podcasts, "Everything...

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February 25, 2025

What is the Best Proof for the Existence of God?

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

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December 15, 2024

Why Faith Can’t Avoid Being Political

I've been steering away from politics here ever since last month's election and intend to...

November 2024

November 15, 2024

Christianity and Power

So how are you doing ten days after the election? In the wee hours of...

October 2024

October 22, 2024

A Report from Theology Beer Camp

This past weekend I was at a conference in Denver called "Theology Beer Camp." If...

October 08, 2024

A Christian Nightmare

What would happen if we actually took the things we claim to believe seriously enough...

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