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August 2019
August 27, 2019
What is the Best Evidence that God is Real?
In her wonderful memoir Take This Bread, Sara Miles tells us of a conversation she had...
August 06, 2019
Are We Tending Toward Justice?
I was reminded when I visited the MLK Memorial in Washington DC a couple of...
July 2019
July 05, 2019
A Thankless and Glorious Assignment: Enter if You are Brave Enough
In the early hours of a Sunday morning not long ago, I read the final...
May 2019
May 02, 2019
Does Everything Happen for a Reason? I don’t think so
During the last seminar of the semester in one of my classes this week, my...
April 2019
April 27, 2019
Why Doubt Is My Favorite Virtue
The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty Anne Lamott In the lectionary, the Second...
March 2019
March 17, 2019
Why I Am Done Trying to Prove the Existence of God
If you think you understand it, it is not God. Soren Kierkegaard In Marilynne Robinson’s...
February 2019
February 17, 2019
I recently read the following observations: They weren’t such bad fellows. He had mixed with...
January 2019
January 10, 2019
Just Your Typical Family, or Jesus Gets Grounded
Each week for many years, Garrison Keillor told “Prairie Home Companion” listeners the news from...
January 03, 2019
Paying Attention to What’s Behind the Curtain
Not long ago I led a seminar with a number of colleagues from the Honors...
December 2018
December 13, 2018
Did Jesus Ever Say “I’m Sorry”?
A popular Christian writer got herself in trouble not long ago by suggesting on Twitter...
November 2018
November 27, 2018
This is Why I am Not an Atheist
Despite my consistent self-description as a “person of faith,” I have been accused occasionally over...
November 02, 2018
Spreading the Good News of Atheism
Last week, my blog post about what atheists and persons of faith can agree on...
October 2018
October 21, 2018
The Chapel and the Man Cave: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Intellect
About a month ago I received an email from my friend Marsue, brief and to...
August 2018
August 19, 2018
In Lies We Believe Abut God, Wm. Paul Young (author of The Shack) tells the...
August 07, 2018
The Most Profoundly Religious Statement of All: “I Don’t Know”
Let me tell you here first, “trust in God” has never floated my boat as...
July 2018
July 29, 2018
In her wonderful memoir Take This Bread, Sara Miles tells us of a conversation she...
July 10, 2018
God’s Works Are as Good as We Make Them
God would have us know that we must live as people who manage our lives...
July 08, 2018
God is Just a Story (and so are we)
Although the name of this blog is “Freelance Christianity,” and it is published on Patheos’...
June 2018
June 28, 2018
Does Everything Work Together for Good?
Jeanne and I recently had the opportunity to see a local community theater’s production of...
March 2018
March 22, 2018
Morality By The Skin Of Your Teeth
Any caring human being asks the question What is the right thing to do? on...
March 08, 2018
How Atheists and Theists Can Get Along
This coming week I will be starting a unit with my General Ethics students called...
February 2018
February 20, 2018
Beauty for Ashes, or Why Lent is a Bad Idea
One sunny morning in September 1983, when I was struggling in my late twenties with...
January 2018
January 23, 2018
So moral relativism makes us more corrupt, but it also keeps us open-minded; moral objectivism...
December 2017
December 16, 2017
I really didn’t say everything I said. Yogi Berra A bit over a year ago, the...
November 2017
November 28, 2017
If we’re grownups about faith, then why can’t we all get together and lament the...
November 02, 2017
Have you never felt like one of those pawns forgotten in a corner of the...
August 2017
August 13, 2017
April may be the cruelest month, if T. S. Eliot is correct, but for teachers,...
August 01, 2017
Am I an Impostor? Do I Have Any Real Significance?
As everyone else I know, I often suffer from impostor's syndrome and feelings of insignificance....
July 2017
July 21, 2017
The Muslim/Christian Brotherhood
Reza Aslan is a Muslim; I am a Christian. But we share something fundamentally important...
July 03, 2017
Patriotism and the Art of Compromise
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