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A Labor Day Reflection on Jesus and Capitalism

There are a couple of sayings attributed to Jesus that Christians often use when attempting...

July 2025

July 15, 2025

Finding the Thing with Feathers

Anyone who has ever stepped inside a Catholic church more than once for a mass...

May 2025

May 15, 2025

The President and the Cult of Ignorance

It was about five years ago, in the height of the pandemic during the closing...

March 2025

March 09, 2025

A Lenten Time Change–How are you doing?

For many of us, Daylight Saving Time began this morning at 2:00 am. This year's...

December 2024

December 29, 2024

First Sunday after Christmas: In the Beginning was the Word

The gospel reading in all three liturgical years for the First Sunday after Christmas is...

September 2024

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 17, 2024

Jesus and a Four-Letter Word

Next week will be one of my favorite teaching weeks of the semester as I...

September 01, 2024

A Labor Day Question: What Does the Lord Require of Us?

There are a couple of sayings attributed to Jesus that Christians often use when attempting...

July 2024

July 16, 2024

You might be a Bible-worshipper if . . .

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of “The Chosen,”...

July 11, 2024

There are Two Kinds of People . . .

I ran an informal experiment on Facebook the other day, the point of which was...

May 2024

May 16, 2024

When God Sends Us the Bird

This coming Sunday is Pentecost, a celebration on when the Holy Spirit descended on a...

May 02, 2024

Big News, and a Blast from the Past!

First, some big news! Yesterday I signed a contract for my book A Year of...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

Your Comfort Zone Is Not a Sacred Space

In an interview with CNN a few Easters ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said this about...

February 2024

February 11, 2024

Basketball and Forgiveness

For someone who is a dedicated college basketball fan and a rabid follower of the...

February 01, 2024

Is Religion a Virus?

The last time I was a member of a search committee for a new tenure...

January 2024

January 30, 2024

What Sort of Bubble Do You Live In?

In my last post I wrote about being comfortable in my own skin as an...

January 28, 2024

Enneagrams, Personality Tests, and the Virtues of Elitism

A bit over a year ago at my brother-in-law’s wake, I spent several minutes chatting...

January 25, 2024

God Isn’t Angry At Us

A former student who wrote for our campus student newspaper once asked me during an...

November 2023

November 26, 2023

The Difference Between Goats and GOATs

The last Sunday before Advent and the beginning of a new liturgical calendar year is...

November 16, 2023

Is Confirmation Bias a Bad Thing?

Commenting on a new blog essay that I wrote while on retreat last summer, a...

November 05, 2023

Time Change Distress is a First World Problem

In the wee hours of this morning, the time changed from Daylight Saving Time to...

August 2023

August 13, 2023

What Are You Doing Here?

After a number of years of engaging with social media, primarily Facebook and Twitter (which...

August 10, 2023

If No One Reads Me, Have I Wasted My Time?

Women are not wrong at all when they reject the rules of life that have...

July 2023

July 20, 2023

Achieiving the Peaceable Kingdom

One Sunday morning a number of years ago, I noticed that a reproduction of a...

July 18, 2023

Do I Teach or Am I a Teacher? On Being a Verb Rather than a Noun

I have two book projects in the works these days. I just finished a full...

July 13, 2023

Why Is God So Wasteful?

As of next month, I will have been blogging for eleven years. As I suspect...

July 08, 2023

What We Can Learn about Trust from a Corgi

It's hard to believe that our corgi Bovina, the love and center of Jeanne's and...

June 2023

June 13, 2023

Walking Away from Jesusland

In our never-ending search for excellent police dramas, Jeanne and I watched the first season...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Riding the Tricycle of Faith

Almost three decades ago when I was a new, junior, untenured faculty member at my...

October 2022

October 29, 2022

How to Make Certain Christians Very Angry

In the ten-plus years of this blog’s existence, I have made any number of Christians...

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