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December 08, 2024

Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant

I was saddened to hear a couple of days ago that Fr. Wilfred Thiesen died...

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April 04, 2024

The Rapture or a Random Harvest?

Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight; Angels, descending, bring...

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September 28, 2023

What Would Dorothea Do?

I saw a bumper sticker once that said “So many books, so little time.” I...

June 2023

June 08, 2023

Of Roofs, Vineyards, and the Kingdom of Heaven

Three summers ago, after three delays (one our fault, two their fault), our house got...

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May 02, 2023

The Most Profoundly Religious Statement of All

In last Thursday's meeting of the "Faith and Doubt" seminar I team-teach with a Dominican...

March 2023

March 02, 2023

Getting Back to the Basics

This coming Sunday's gospel gets us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to...

November 2022

November 03, 2022

Warthogs and Saints: Who Gets to be at the Front of the Line?

One of my colleagues and friends and I are beginning to construct the syllabus for...

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October 20, 2022

The Best Answer for Unanswerable Questions: “I Don’t Know”

Natural disasters have been on my mind recently. Perhaps it's because of the fury of...

October 01, 2022

Having the Faith of a Weed

In today's gospel reading from Luke, Jesus' disciples make a very simple request: "Increase our...

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September 05, 2022

What Does the Lord Require of Us? A Labor Day Reflection

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

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July 26, 2022

This Book Changed My Life: Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence....

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April 06, 2022

Perfection or Slight Improvment?

I have no idea why or how Miss Katrina Munn, a graduate of Julliard School...

February 2022

February 08, 2022

Playing With Fire: Be Careful What You Say “Yes” To

Somewhere not long ago I heard or read that one of the top television programs...

December 2021

December 17, 2021

“For Unto Us”: An Afternoon with Handel’s Messiah

The soundtrack of my youth is classical music. I was classically trained on the piano...

September 2021

September 04, 2021

Jesus and Capitalism: A Labor Day Reflection

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

August 2021

August 14, 2021

The Coronavirus and End Times

Sometimes various elements of real life align in unexpected ways. In the Spring semester of...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

Of Marx and Vineyards

After getting sucked into an discussion on Twitter a few days ago in which it...

June 2021

June 27, 2021

It’s Time to Get Back to Work

As we continue to move toward "normalcy" after close to a year-and-a-half of pandemic shut...

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May 29, 2021

The Trinity and Adult Beverages: A Reflection on Trinity Sunday

Next to Lent, the part of the liturgical calendar that I have always found least...

March 2021

March 14, 2021

Returning to the Basics

Today's lectionary texts take us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to remember...

February 2021

February 04, 2021

The Best of 2020 #1: The Coronavirus, the Apocalypse, and The Book of Revelation

It is not surprising, given what 2020 was like, that the most viewed post on...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Am I Old Yet?

A few days before Christmas, Jeanne and I were talking with a friend of hers...

October 2020

October 29, 2020

Exorcising the Ghosts of Jesus Past

One Sunday, toward the end of a particularly lively and deep seminar with my “Living...

September 2020

September 24, 2020

Karl Marx and the Parable of the Vineyard Owner

My college campus is in the middle of a (hopefully) temporary lockdown, due to a...

September 08, 2020

Living On the Edges of the Christian Circus Tent

Jeanne and I celebrated our 32nd anniversary in July—the gifts we gave each other are...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Roofs, Vineyards, and the Kingdom of Heaven

Last Wednesday, after three delays (one our fault, two their fault), our house got a...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Visions of (the) Rapture Now Burst On My Sight

Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight; Angels, descending, bring...

March 18, 2020

The Coronavirus, the Apocalypse, and the Book of Revelation

There is something appropriate about teaching a course named “Apocalypse” in the middle of world...

March 11, 2020

The Gospel in a Nutshell

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

February 2020

February 29, 2020

Jesus I Know . . . But Who are You?

Today is the First Sunday of Lent; the gospel traditionally is a version of Jesus'...

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