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September 30, 2018
Putting Out the Welcome Mat: Who is Welcome at Your Place of Worship?
In her wonderful book Take This Bread, Sara Miles describes a conversation she had with...
September 04, 2018
Whatever Prayer Is For, It Isn’t That
A week ago, the small Episcopal church that I frequently attend moved its morning services...
September 03, 2018
It’s Labor Day–What is YOUR Labor Worth?
It's Labor Day--an opportunity for each of us to reflect on the value of our...
September 02, 2018
Remembering John McCain: How to Move Past a Season of Cowardice
While the President of the United States tweeted his usual string of petty Saturday morning...
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...
June 2018
June 08, 2018
The Little Red Haired Girl’s Birthday
Tomorrow is my wife Jeanne's birthday--join me in celebrating this wonderful event by reading my...
June 01, 2018
Getting Out of the Spiritual Nursery
Organized religion often is a source of packaged answers and comfortable solutions to important questions...
May 2018
May 18, 2018
A Prayer for Graduates on Commencement Weekend
May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships,...
April 2018
April 26, 2018
White Privilege and the Gospels
In my General Ethics class, my students and I have just finished a three week...
March 2018
March 29, 2018
"Could you not stay awake with me one hour?" Jesus asked his disciples. It's a...
March 15, 2018
The Christian Faith In a Nutshell
Sports fans old enough to remember the 70s and 80s will recall that a regular...
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...
March 06, 2018
A Few Things That I Know To Be True
Today is my birthday, so I ask for your indulgence. Our culture tends to assume...
February 2018
February 27, 2018
Why Teachers Should Not Be Armed
As a proposed step in our continuing struggle to address gun violence in schools, President...
February 25, 2018
I grew up in the world of evangelical Christianity, and have spent much of my...
February 24, 2018
What I Can Do About Gun Violence
The year anniversary of the horrific massacre at The Pulse in Orlando a week ago,...
February 22, 2018
A few months ago, the gospel reading from Luke prompted our rector and my friend...
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...
February 04, 2018
The theme of a philosophy conference that I attended a couple of years ago was...
February 01, 2018
Exactly three years ago, on the morning of Super Bowl 49, I wrote a blog...
January 2018
January 30, 2018
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and...
January 28, 2018
A few weeks ago, Jeanne said “I want a fish.” This was a rather random...
January 18, 2018
Anyone who reads this blog regularly or even occasionally knows that I love movies. Solidly...
January 09, 2018
My friend Michael lives with his family in Florida. That in itself makes me wonder...
December 2017
December 26, 2017
When God Doesn’t Meet Our Expectations
What would you call a friend who is as unpredictable as the weather, who shows...
November 2017
November 24, 2017
Why Thanksgiving is Always the Best Day of the Year
I have a Facebook acquaintance, a fellow graduate of St. John’s College, who posts five...
November 16, 2017
In my life-long spiritual journey, the decade of my twenties was the charismatic decade. No,...
November 08, 2017
Imagine a jigsaw puzzle, a thousand pieces or more. There is no box showing what...
October 2017
October 31, 2017
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