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May 2018

May 10, 2018

The Crooked Timber of Faith

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

March 2018

March 18, 2018

There Is A God, But I Do Not Believe In HIm

God would have us know that we must live as people who manage our lives...

March 15, 2018

The Christian Faith In a Nutshell

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

January 2018

January 07, 2018

An Epiphany

Today is the First Sunday after the Epiphany (which was celebrated yesterday). I'm at a...

December 2017

December 12, 2017

It’s About Time

Time has been on my mind recently. A couple of months ago in my freshman...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

A Halloween Frame of Mind

It's Halloween!--one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends many...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

What People of Faith Share in Common with Atheists

The more I realize why my faith is important to me, the more I realize...

July 2017

July 23, 2017

Be Ye Therefore Slightly Improved

Jesus said 'Be ye therefore perfect." Wouldn't it have been more sensible for him to...

July 11, 2017

The Virtues of Atheism

A fresh look at my world without God-tinted lenses reveals that suffering and violence are...

May 2017

May 17, 2017

Fast and Slow

My college's commencement is this coming Sunday; Pentecost is two weeks after that. How might...

May 13, 2017

Everybody Must Get Stoned

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

March 2017

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...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

I Was a Stranger

A bit over a year ago, in the midst of the Presidential campaign that no...

January 25, 2017

The “F” Word

There’s nothing like unexpectedly dropping an f-bomb on a bunch of students. But it’s even...

January 11, 2017

Holy Family Values

Each week for the past many years, Garrison Keillor has told “Prairie Home Companion” listeners...

January 04, 2017

The Sun and the Other Stars

On the west side of the stone entryway to the beautiful humanities center on my...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

I Will Bring You Home

Baptist preacher's kids get to do some very odd things. I memorized large portions of...

December 12, 2016

Constellations

I love the stars. Not as in “Dancing with . . .” or in Hollywood...

April 2016

April 07, 2016

Adepto Ex Meus Visio

Jeanne and I are headed to Florida this evening to spend a week with family...

March 2016

March 02, 2016

The Ghosts of Jesus Past

My birthday is in four days (the big 6-0), so I'm doing a bit of...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Stranger in a Strange Land

I am not Catholic. I have been firmly ensconced in Catholic higher education for close...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Give Us Barabbas

An annual musical fixture of my Baptist upbringing was the Easter Cantata. Each year on...

January 13, 2016

Fake It ‘Til You Make It

I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about God. That’s a strange thing...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Book Geek Problems

Two months ago President Obama and Marilynne Robinson had a lengthy conversation, not about foreign...

October 14, 2015

Reading the Fine Print

As predictable as the change of seasons is the point in any given semester when...

July 2015

July 06, 2015

Achieving Disagreement–in real time

God is in favor of same sex marriage because God placed a rainbow in the...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

There are More Things In Heaven and Earth . . .

Not long ago I received the following email out of the blue: “My name is ___ and...

June 17, 2015

My Best Friends

I sat down in my usual aisle seat on one of my infrequent airplane flights...

December 2014

December 03, 2014

Wake Up!

I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to observe a colleague in class,...

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