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October 2017

October 29, 2017

Why I Am Not an Atheist

Despite my consistent self-description as a “person of faith,” I have been accused occasionally over...

October 26, 2017

Wherever You Go

The 8:00 show at church is for early morning people and those who prefer silence...

October 15, 2017

We Can Do Better Than Righteous Anger

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 I confessed on this...

October 10, 2017

Knowing the Unknowable

Every fall I spend a week with over one hundred freshman exploring the familiar but...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

What Happiness Really Amounts To

It is the happy life that asks more of us than we realize we have...

September 27, 2017

Naming Our Demons

My youngest son was a vet tech for a number of years and had many...

September 03, 2017

Are You More Christian Than I Am?

If we remembered that water takes its color from the vessel containing it, we would...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Idols and Icons

Of all the lessons I've learned in my three decades of teaching, none is more...

August 29, 2017

They’re Baaack . . . .

We are in the business of believing in, and promoting, things that don’t yet exist....

August 13, 2017

It Isn’t Working

April may be the cruelest month, if T. S. Eliot is correct, but for teachers,...

August 03, 2017

The Kingdom of Heaven is like Kudzu

We often tend to domesticate Jesus' parables, turning them into something attractive and nice. But...

July 2017

July 14, 2017

The Western Tradition in Eighteen Windows

Your assignment is to name the eighteen most important figures in the Western liberal arts...

July 09, 2017

The Burden of LIght

In today's gospel, Jesus says that his yoke is easy and his burden is light....

July 03, 2017

Patriotism and the Art of Compromise

Jonathan Rauch: It is our duty as citizens to find ways to live together. I...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

A Liberal’s Worst Nightmare

Liberals are appalled by the provisions of the health care bill that Republicans are trying...

June 26, 2017

Let Us Cultivate our Garden

What is one to do when what one professes to believe has become, as Macbeth...

June 23, 2017

Spiritual Plagiarism

God often operates according to entirely different rules than those to which we are accustomed....

June 10, 2017

I Am Because You Are

It became clear at the Comey hearing and after that Donald Trump's primary concern is...

May 2017

May 13, 2017

Everybody Must Get Stoned

One of the readings from this Sunday's lectionary is the story of the stoning of...

May 12, 2017

My Imaginary Friend

There are billions of human beings who shape their whole reality and might even stake...

May 10, 2017

Our Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough

The most common, and lamest, response to those who have suffered tragedy is to say...

May 05, 2017

Joy in a Minor Key

Richard Powers write that there’s joy in a minor key, a deep pleasure to be...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Wolf Hall

Christian Wiman writes that "every single expression of faith is provisional . . . because...

April 11, 2017

Flowering Trees

At the beginning of the first Holy Week, Jesus killed a fig tree for no...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Quiet Ignorance

Over the past several years, I have frequently returned to a question that a friend...

March 05, 2017

Sixty-One Years On

I've no wish to be living sixty years on Elton John Tomorrow is my birthday!...

March 03, 2017

Getting Ready for the Apocalypse

A colleague and friend from the English department contacted me a few months ago and...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

A Crooked Faith

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant...

February 20, 2017

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

It's President's Day, which for all college professors means--as do all Monday holidays in the...

February 14, 2017

Valentine’s Day for the Mature

Human love in the purest forms we can know it, wife and husband, parent and...

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