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I Am Not Special, and Neither Are You
The Disrupter-in-Chief threw a verbal grenade into a Rose Garden event with Mitch McConnell by...
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The truth will not set you free, but it will definitely mess your life up. A...
October 15, 2017
We Can Do Better Than Righteous Anger
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 I confessed on this...
October 12, 2017
God Doesn’t Need Our Protection
Human beings never behave so badly as when they believe they are protecting God. Barbara Brown...
October 10, 2017
Every fall I spend a week with over one hundred freshman exploring the familiar but...
October 08, 2017
Autumn is my favorite season, and October is my favorite month. This is not surprising...
September 2017
September 27, 2017
My youngest son was a vet tech for a number of years and had many...
September 19, 2017
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence...
September 12, 2017
This semester I have the privilege of teaching Philosophy of Knowledge, a favorite course that for...
August 2017
August 29, 2017
We are in the business of believing in, and promoting, things that don’t yet exist....
August 22, 2017
How I can be a Philosopher and a Christian at the same time
There is a big difference between "Christendom" (an institution) and "Christianity" (a way of life)--it...
August 15, 2017
What People of Faith Share in Common with Atheists
The more I realize why my faith is important to me, the more I realize...
August 06, 2017
Angels show up in all shapes and sizes, in all sorts of situations and scenarios....
August 03, 2017
The Kingdom of Heaven is like Kudzu
We often tend to domesticate Jesus' parables, turning them into something attractive and nice. But...
July 2017
July 25, 2017
Step to the Right: Practicing Right Brain Faith in a Left Brain World
After a major stroke, neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor lost function in her left brain. But...
July 21, 2017
The Muslim/Christian Brotherhood
Reza Aslan is a Muslim; I am a Christian. But we share something fundamentally important...
July 19, 2017
A Sower Went Forth To Sow . . .
Every writer knows that writing is an inefficient and non-economical process. One never knows when...
July 09, 2017
In today's gospel, Jesus says that his yoke is easy and his burden is light....
July 07, 2017
Last fall I had the opportunity to give the sermon on stewardship Sunday at my...
June 2017
June 30, 2017
The depths of divine love cannot be exhausted by words, by speech, by texts, by...
June 28, 2017
Liberals are appalled by the provisions of the health care bill that Republicans are trying...
June 16, 2017
Wonder Woman believes that the conflict between good and evil is a zero sum game,...
June 10, 2017
It became clear at the Comey hearing and after that Donald Trump's primary concern is...
June 08, 2017
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May 2017
May 31, 2017
When a Coincidence is more than a Coincidence
Frederick Buechner suggests that coincidences may be more than chance occurrences. They may be trying...
May 17, 2017
My college's commencement is this coming Sunday; Pentecost is two weeks after that. How might...
May 13, 2017
One of the readings from this Sunday's lectionary is the story of the stoning of...
May 12, 2017
There are billions of human beings who shape their whole reality and might even stake...
May 08, 2017
During a forum about diversifying our very white campus a few years ago, a colleague...
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