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January 2026

January 11, 2026

A Conversation Between Jesus and Creepy John

The gospel lectionary reading for the First Sunday of Epiphay traditionally is one version of...

September 2025

September 21, 2025

What If I’m Wrong?

Starting college at age eighteen, three thousand miles away from home, might have been daunting...

July 2025

July 27, 2025

We Are Not Special

A regular occurrence at home Providence Friars basketball games is when, during one of the...

February 2025

February 02, 2025

The Greek Philosopher You’ve Never Heard Of

I haven't had a chance to teach the ancient greats in philosophy in several semesters,...

September 2024

September 27, 2024

Why We Believe Things That Aren’t True

Over the years that I have been writing this blog, those who describe themselves as...

September 24, 2024

How to Make God Interesting

It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for a [non-Christian] to hear a Christian, supposedly...

September 17, 2024

Jesus and a Four-Letter Word

Next week will be one of my favorite teaching weeks of the semester as I...

September 15, 2024

Comfort is vastly overrated

In the interdisciplinary, team-taught course I am participating in this semester, we spent our second...

July 2024

July 26, 2024

A Young Woman Confronts Her Inherent Racism

It's been a crazy week, hasn't it? I have deliberately avoided going political on this...

July 16, 2024

You might be a Bible-worshipper if . . .

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of “The Chosen,”...

July 14, 2024

The Head of John the Baptist

Today is the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost; the gospel reading from Mark tells the story...

June 2024

June 18, 2024

Feeding the Hungry Stranger

In the honors interdisciplinary program I teach in, my colleagues and I have chosen over...

April 2024

April 19, 2024

Healing Begins with Listening

It occurred to me a couple of days ago that the spring semester is ending...

April 15, 2024

Jesus Wants You to Pay Your Taxes and to Like It

Today is tax day. As the familiar saying goes, just like death taxes are inevitable....

March 2024

March 19, 2024

On Being a Person

In her award-winning trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell, the consigliere and fixer for Henry...

March 05, 2024

Another Birthday Tomorrow–do I have anything new to say?

Tomorrow is my birthday (#68)--the fact that my youngest son finds a way to travel...

February 2024

February 29, 2024

Being a Person of Faith in Challenging Times

This has been a challenging week in class, not because of my students but because...

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...

January 2024

January 23, 2024

What Exactly is a Freelance Christian?

I have been told on occasion by readers of this blog that "Freelance Christianity" is...

January 14, 2024

How Solitude Can Lead to God

The building looked like the love child of a logic problem and a crossword puzzle....

January 07, 2024

When Things Got Real Between John the Baptist and Jesus

The gospel lectionary reading for the First Sunday of Epiphay traditionally is one version of...

October 2023

October 26, 2023

What is the Most Awesome Country, and Why is it Canada?

A number of years ago, during the early years of President Barack Obama's first term,...

October 10, 2023

In Bed with Krista and Kate

It was just beginning to turn dimly light when I began to wake up. I...

August 2023

August 05, 2023

When What I Want to Believe Isn’t True: Reflections on the latest indictment of Donald Trump

What do you do when virtually all of the evidence relevant to an important matter...

July 2023

July 25, 2023

God is Not a Helicopter Parent

Every teacher knows about helicopter parents. Most of us, teacher or not, intuitively know what...

July 03, 2023

Sitting in Safety Without Fear–an Independence Day Reflection

Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree, and there shall...

June 2023

June 24, 2023

How to Be the Resurrection

Lead on King Eternal, the day of march has come Henceforth in fields of conquest Thy...

May 2023

May 09, 2023

Determined to Believe that We are Not Determined

In a recent edition of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik reviews two or three books...

April 2023

April 20, 2023

So What? Now What?

Regular readers of this blog, or even those who just occasionally drop in, know that...

April 17, 2023

Drops Upon the Heart

In the interdisciplinary program I teach in and used to direct, the first semester faculty...

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