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April 2026

April 26, 2026

The Mulch of the Spirit

A few days ago as I walked onto campus I was struck by a distinctive...

April 16, 2026

God is Change

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

March 2026

March 22, 2026

Can These Bones Live?

Today is Lent 5--the gospel text is John 11, John's account of the raising of...

March 07, 2026

What Biblical Wells Teach Us About the Unpredictable Divine

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

March 03, 2026

Angels of Change

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

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 11, 2026

The National Prayer Breakfast Gets an Unexpected Visitor

The annual National Prayer Breakfast happened last week. I don't know what happened or what...

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 15, 2026

Mary Got To Choose

Readers of this blog know that I have frequently recommended podcasts over the past months...

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...

November 13, 2025

The Wells of Salvation

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

November 09, 2025

One Wife for Seven Brothers

It's football season! Here's a conversation overheard as a bunch of guys at a sports...

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,...

June 2025

June 29, 2025

Did Jesus Care About Family Values?

Throughout the gospel lectionary readings in Ordinary Time, Jesus regularly says surprising things that contradict...

June 08, 2025

Pentecost: Big Bird is In the House

The Day of Pentecost, next to Christmas and Easter, is undoubtedly the biggest single day...

May 2025

May 22, 2025

Wanting to Be Healed

In a perfect world, I would never give a written final exam in any class...

May 18, 2025

Great Advice for Graduates: God’s Will, and Flipping a Coin

Dear Graduates... Today is graduation day at Providence College, where I just finished my thirty-first...

February 2025

February 18, 2025

Are You Tired of Being Angry Yet?

Do not letthe sun go down on your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 Although I have been...

February 09, 2025

An Unexpected Speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast

The annual National Prayer Breakfast happened last Thursday. I don't know what happened or what...

November 2024

November 24, 2024

A Beautiful Conversation About Grief

You may have noticed that I've been providing more links to view and listen to...

October 2024

October 27, 2024

Now My Eye Sees You

The lectionary readings from the Jewish scriptures this month have walked us through the Book...

October 13, 2024

Hard Sayings and Inconvenient Truths

I will be receiving the copyedited version of my book A Year of Faith and Philosophy...

October 08, 2024

A Christian Nightmare

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

September 2024

September 29, 2024

How to Delegate Authority

Today's lectionary reading from the Jewish scriptures is from Numbers. We find the liberated Israelites...

September 24, 2024

How to Make God Interesting

It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for a [non-Christian] to hear a Christian, supposedly...

September 22, 2024

The Wisdom of Trees

In Psalm 1, one of the psalm options in today's lectionary readings, the righteous are...

September 20, 2024

Why Being Uncomfortable is a Good Thing

A new podcast that I've been enjoying recently is Ali Velshi's "Banned Book Club"--I highly...

September 13, 2024

Corrupted Memory Files

My youngest son, Justin, has a remarkable memory–for, as he puts it, “totally useless facts.”...

September 08, 2024

What Does a Mature Faith Look Like?

I detect that a rebellion against all things “religious” is growing on me. Often it...

September 06, 2024

First Day of Class Dreams and Nightmares

Last Tuesday was the first day of classes on my campus for the 2024-25 academic...

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