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July 2018

July 13, 2018

What the Scots Think Of Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom is underway—something that makes me very happy that...

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’...

July 05, 2018

To Whom Do You Belong?

A couple of years ago, my college celebrated its centennial. For Jeanne and me, the...

July 03, 2018

All Things Shall Be Well?

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall...

June 2018

June 14, 2018

Lessons Learned From a Blackberry Bush

A few years ago, Jeanne returned from a weekend with a friend in Vermont with...

June 12, 2018

The God of History is an Atheist

Atheism is a purification Simone Weil Former President Obama loved to quote a hopeful statement from...

June 10, 2018

What Do You Do When No One Is Watching?

Hey Justin! What if you had a ring that made you invisible when you put...

June 07, 2018

I Pardon You

Pardons are in the news, particularly Presidential pardons. Presidential pardons are nothing new, and everyone...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

“America First” is a Theological Heresy

Memorial Day week is a time for solemn remembrance. It also tends to be a...

May 24, 2018

Ruining the Christian Brand

In “Slander,” from her latest collection of essays, What Are We Doing Here?, Marilynne Robinson...

May 01, 2018

Taking a Moral Holiday

So here we are, a year and a half since Donald Trump was elected President....

April 2018

April 19, 2018

A Liberal and a Christian Walk Into a Bar . . .

Not long ago, The Atlantic published an article by Emma Green entitled “Democrats Have a...

April 10, 2018

Moral Apocalypse

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shakespeare, King Lear This week,...

April 05, 2018

Jesus and Karl Marx walk into a bar . . .

We should read the New Testament as saying that how we treat each other on...

March 2018

March 13, 2018

Dr. Seuss, an Unborn Child, and Why Each Of Us Matters

Dr. Seuss was a regular in our house when my sons were young—my thirty-something sons...

March 09, 2018

Do I (Still) Really Hate Donald Trump?

Last Sunday's gospel gives us John's version of Jesus "going Brooklyn" on the moneychangers in...

February 2018

February 18, 2018

So Much Good. So Much Evil. Just Add Water

So here we are again, seeking as a country to deal with the latest horrific...

February 11, 2018

Donald Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast

Last Thursday morning, the President tweeted the following: Will be heading over shortly to make...

February 08, 2018

Tolerance on Steroids

What happens when a perfectly good virtue gets turned into not only the most important virtue,...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Insufficient Evidence

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and...

January 05, 2018

The Life of the Mind, or the Sewage of the Soul?

I recently got a shout-out from a colleague in the history department with whom I...

December 2017

December 30, 2017

God Said It. I Believe It. That Settles It–Best of “Bearings Online” #4

I occasionally write articles for Bearings Online, the online publication of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

A Grownup Faith

If we’re grownups about faith, then why can’t we all get together and lament the...

November 26, 2017

God said it. I believe it. That settles it. (except that it doesn’t)

When trying to describe to predominantly Catholic students the religious world that I was born...

November 12, 2017

I’m a Christian, But I Won’t Be Saying “Merry Christmas”

A few days ago, reports that Roy Moore, Alabama Republican candidate for the United States...

November 10, 2017

Evangelical Atheism

I just started a new unit in my General Ethics classes with fifty juniors and...

November 05, 2017

Silence and Submission

Over the past few weeks, Americans have been reminded once again of the misogyny and...

August 2017

August 20, 2017

What if . . . we stopped asking “What If”?

There are few pastimes more popular than playing “What If?” It’s a favorite theme, for...

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...

July 2017

July 30, 2017

We Are Each Other’s Keepers

In the book of Genesis, when asked by God about the whereabouts of Abel, Cain...

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