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May 2026

May 24, 2026

The Lonely Pawn: On Faith, Doubt, and Meaning

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

April 2026

April 30, 2026

Advice that Saint Francis Never Gave

There is a saying attributed to Saint Francis that I have heard frequently over more...

April 16, 2026

God is Change

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

April 12, 2026

Thomas–My Doubting Hero

The Second Sunday of Easter is always "Doubting Thomas Sunday," an opportunity for me to...

April 01, 2026

Making the Truth Laugh: An April Fools Day Reflection

I know that today is Wednesday in Holy Week, but it is also April Fools...

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...

October 2025

October 19, 2025

“Hello, God!”

You can either think of the creeds of the great traditions . . . as...

April 2025

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...

March 2025

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...

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...

September 2024

September 15, 2024

Comfort is vastly overrated

In the interdisciplinary, team-taught course I am participating in this semester, we spent our second...

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...

July 2024

July 19, 2024

On its way to the publisher!

On Monday I will be sending the final manuscript of A Year of Faith and Philosophy:...

July 14, 2024

The Head of John the Baptist

Today is the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost; the gospel reading from Mark tells the story...

May 2024

May 19, 2024

The Holy Spirit’s Coming Out Party–A Pentecost Reflection

Two year ago I had the privilege of giving the Pentecost Sunday sermon at the...

April 2024

April 07, 2024

Thomas, Michel, and the Importance of Doubt

Jeanne and I spent Thursday through Saturday of Holy Week in a movie theater. We...

February 2024

February 29, 2024

Being a Person of Faith in Challenging Times

This has been a challenging week in class, not because of my students but because...

February 22, 2024

Did Jesus Misread Human Nature?

The Gospel reading for last Sunday, the First Sunday of Lent, is the account of...

January 2024

January 09, 2024

This I Believe–and that’s not a good thing

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

October 2023

October 15, 2023

Why Do We Think that Everything Happens for a Reason?

The last text of the Spring 2021 semester--the last Covid-19 affected semester on my campus--in...

July 2023

July 29, 2023

Jesus Would Have Driven Socrates Crazy

When we first moved to Rhode Island in the middle 1990s for my new teaching...

May 2023

May 23, 2023

Where I have Been and Where I am Going

Providence College’s commencement exercises were two days ago. As I walked out of the Amica...

May 04, 2023

Various Ways of Saying “Hello” to God

You can either think of the creeds of the great traditions . . . as...

May 02, 2023

The Most Profoundly Religious Statement of All

In last Thursday's meeting of the "Faith and Doubt" seminar I team-teach with a Dominican...

April 2023

April 23, 2023

Jesus, Cleopas, and Bob have a Conversation about Hope

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

March 2023

March 07, 2023

Living with “Moment Faith”

After spending six and a half decades in the middle of this faith thing, one...

February 2023

February 22, 2023

A Tale of Ash Wednesday and Lent

One Wednesday last winter, the student in front of me in line at the little...

February 12, 2023

What Are We Fighting For?

During my sabbatical semester over a decade ago at an ecumenial institute on the campus...

November 2022

November 12, 2022

“The Heart Has Its Reasons . . .”: My Evidence Against Atheism

Although I estimate that at least 80-90 percent of the negative comments and pushback I...

October 2022

October 20, 2022

The Best Answer for Unanswerable Questions: “I Don’t Know”

Natural disasters have been on my mind recently. Perhaps it's because of the fury of...

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