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April 2025

April 27, 2025

Did the Early Christians Practice Socialism?

Doubt is Next to Godliness Last Friday's post imagined a conversation between Karl Marx and...

March 2025

March 28, 2025

A Return to the Problem of Evil–Part Two

After a week off from classes for spring break, I jumped back into the problem...

March 23, 2025

Can Goodness Survive in a World Full of Evil?

Considering the Problem of Goodness During the early years of my career, I developed the...

March 18, 2025

Goodness in the Midst of Evil

Regular readers of this blog know that Jeanne and I are incurable readers of mystery...

December 2024

December 20, 2024

During this Christmas Season, Don’t be Stupid

In December of 1942, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a Christmas letter to a number of his...

June 2024

June 20, 2024

Not Long Ago. Not Far Away

Jeanne and I went to the Auschwitz exhibition in Boston yesterday--it's there for the rest...

June 06, 2024

Speaking the Truth in a Culture of Lies

As I continue to put my new book, A Year of Faith and Philosophy: Exploring Spiritual...

February 2024

February 08, 2024

Doing Good for the Sake of Goodness

Last Monday's text in my sophomore Honors seminar, a course that spans literature, history, theology...

February 04, 2024

Can We Trust Each Other? A Reflection on Human Nature

The other day upon returning from her early morning visit to the gym, the first...

November 2023

November 09, 2023

Why Traditional “Solutions” to the Problem of Evil Don’t Work

In the most recent episode of their podcast “The Bible for Normal People,” Pete Enns...

March 2023

March 21, 2023

When Stupidity Runs Amok . . .

In December of 1942, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a Christmas letter to a number of his...

February 2023

February 04, 2023

What Can We Do Now That There Is No God?

One of the matters I am paying close attention to this semester, as I prepare...

January 2023

January 24, 2023

We are to be God in the World

This coming Sunday's gospel reading is the Beatitudes from Matthew, the opening lines from the...

February 2022

February 13, 2022

Being God in the World

Today's gospel reading is Luke's abbreviated version of the Beatitudes. It is a scene so...

February 03, 2022

Revisiting the Garden of Eden

I am not overstating the case when I say that I was raised on original...

January 2022

January 30, 2022

Decorating the Dungeon

I am currently rereading Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway for one of my team-taught...

January 08, 2022

Against Stupidity, We Are Defenseless

Among the many striking images that we have all seen in the year that has...

October 2021

October 10, 2021

An Appropriate Level of Outrage

As we have been selecting the required texts over the past couple of weeks for...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

So You Want to Be a Good Person?

A Polish Franciscan priest. A Lutheran pastor and theologian. A French, Jewish social activist attracted...

February 2021

February 18, 2021

Flesh and Blood Goodness

Once many years ago, a couple I was close friends with was having marital problems....

January 2021

January 19, 2021

Can You Be a Christian Capitalist? Can You Be a Capitalist Christian?

There is nothing that attracts the ire of various commenters on this blog more than...

January 17, 2021

Stupidity On Display: Where do we go from here?

As the nation continues to process and seek to understand the seditious riot and occupation...

December 2020

December 03, 2020

Will Goodness Become Cool?

As President-elect Biden rolls out his National Security choices, his economic strategy team, his communications...

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