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The Big Sister I Always Wanted: Remembering Marsue three years later

It doesn't seem possible that it has been exactly three years since Marsue Harris, one...

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Ordinary Lives in Ordinary Time

So here we are in Ordinary Time, the longest liturgical season that will stretch until...

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April 11, 2023

A Very Reluctant Rose

A few days ago on campus I detected a familiar, seasonal odor wafting on the...

February 2023

February 19, 2023

Longing to be Whole: A Reflection for Transfiguration Sunday

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent....

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September 20, 2022

Some Stories are Not Redemptive. But They All are Important

The first reading assignment in my General Ethics class this semester was Kate Jennings’ 2002...

September 10, 2022

Remembering 9/11 and Becoming a Better Person

Everyone beyond a certain age can remember clearly what they were doing twenty-one years ago...

May 2022

May 21, 2022

Some Advice for the Graduating Seniors: Don’t Forget About the Room at the Back of your Shop

Today is Commencement Day for the Class of 2022 at my college. Commencement is always...

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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,...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

This Year Sucked, Just Like the Last One. Now What?

Although today is the next-to-last day of 2021, I am writing ten days earlier on...

December 17, 2021

“For Unto Us”: An Afternoon with Handel’s Messiah

The soundtrack of my youth is classical music. I was classically trained on the piano...

December 11, 2021

What I am Thankful For at the End of the Semester

As I write this essay on Friday afternoon, it is the last day of regular...

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 03, 2021

Nationalism is Unpatriotic: An Independence Day Reflection

I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of Independence Day. I fully...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

How to Take Our Country Back

As Independence Day approaches, there are many reasons to be hopeful. Things are continuing to...

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 09, 2021

How Did Covid-19 Affect Your Most Significant Relationship? A Birthday Reflection for Jeanne

Over the past year, I have read and heard reports of marriages either on the...

May 2021

May 03, 2021

Because Survival is Insufficient

“Remember K from our colloquium last year?” my teaching partner emailed late last week. “G...

April 2021

April 18, 2021

Surely, I have Set My Soul in Silence and in Peace

It has been thirteen months since our lives changed in ways that we will never...

April 15, 2021

Death and Taxes

In a normal year, today would be everyone's least favorite day of the year--Tax Day....

April 06, 2021

Diary of a Pandemic Organist

After more than a year hiatus, I found myself sitting at the organ bench at...

March 2021

March 09, 2021

#SayThisNotThat

To clarify thought, to discredit the intrinsically meaningless words, and to define the use of...

March 06, 2021

Today’s my Birthday–and it’s a big one!

I’ve lived almost two-thirds of a century now, so I have passed many of the...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

What is the Difference Between Solitude and Being Alone?

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to yourself. Michel de...

February 23, 2021

It’s Been a Year of Wonders

One of the pleasant surprises of the new semester, now four weeks old, is that...

February 02, 2021

Why Don’t I Feel as Badly as I Should?

I am sure that I’m not the only person who has spent noticeably more time...

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