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May 2019

May 11, 2019

A Mother’s Day Remembrance: Her Children Rise Up and Call Her Blessed

I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...

December 2018

December 24, 2018

Christus Natus Est

Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...

December 23, 2018

Mary with No Assumptions

I have a colleague and friend with whom I share a lot in common. Eric...

December 18, 2018

The Season of Grace and Peace

Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck,...

December 02, 2018

Advent and the Blessing of Being Human

Each Advent for the past eight years, I have had the privilege of giving a...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Trailing Clouds of Glory, We Come From God

As we approach the Advent and Christmas seasons, I am in a forward-looking and hopeful...

November 20, 2018

A Birthday Worth Noting

Today is my youngest son Justin's thirty-seventh birthday. If that's not enough to make me...

October 2018

October 25, 2018

What to Do When You Get Tired of Being Angry

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 Another week, another bunch of...

October 23, 2018

Assisting the Absent God: Helping to Repair a Broken World

Every once in a while someone posts a comment on my blog that reminds me...

October 07, 2018

It Don’t Matter

It's been a rough couple of months at our house, as two members of the...

September 2018

September 11, 2018

Seventeen Years Ago Today

Two years ago, the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 fell on a Sunday. The priest of...

August 2018

August 21, 2018

Hail Frieda, Full of Grace

Six years ago today, after a great deal of resistance, I finally followed the advice...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

I Forgot What You Said

This morning I am in the middle of a writer's conference hosted by an ecumenical...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

The Christian Faith In a Nutshell

Sports fans old enough to remember the 70s and 80s will recall that a regular...

February 2018

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 16, 2018

Look, Don’t Touch

Almost every Sunday during the months I spent on sabbatical a few years ago in...

February 01, 2018

Deflategate and the Nazis

Exactly three years ago, on the morning of Super Bowl 49, I wrote a blog...

January 2018

January 03, 2018

Who Do You Think You Are?

Discovering a new author is one of my favorite things--it frequently happens during the holiday...

January 03, 2018

Saints and Warthogs

Discovering a new author is one of my favorite things--it frequently happens during the holiday...

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...

December 24, 2017

Grace and Peace

Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck,...

December 19, 2017

When a Prophet Speaks, People Listen (or at least they should)

The third Sunday of Advent is always John the Baptist Sunday; last Sunday's reading from...

December 07, 2017

Peace Be To You

I was raised in a version of Christianity that had no sense of the liturgical...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

This Book May Change Your Life

A candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning . . . It seems...

October 2017

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 03, 2017

Spare Parts

Last Sunday was Saint Francis Sunday, a celebration that rivals Easter and Christmas at the...

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 12, 2017

Soul and Body

This semester I have the privilege of teaching Philosophy of Knowledge, a favorite course that for...

September 06, 2017

We Are Not Alone

In last Sunday's gospel reading, Jesus tells us that those who wish to follow him...

August 2017

August 27, 2017

Ten Years On

Ten years ago this summer, I attended a writers conference for the first time in...

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