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God is Non-Binary

I feel like being controversial today . . . Here's a repeat from not long...

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In Pursuit of Being Fit: The Facts and My Story

I started reading a new book this past week: A Liberation Theology of the Brain:...

July 2025

July 29, 2025

God is Non-Binary

My baseline criterion for whether a particular class has gone well is to answer the...

July 16, 2025

Remembering a Friend After a Decade

I was reminded by email a couple of days ago that it has been a...

July 15, 2025

Finding the Thing with Feathers

Anyone who has ever stepped inside a Catholic church more than once for a mass...

June 2025

June 08, 2025

Pentecost: Big Bird is In the House

The Day of Pentecost, next to Christmas and Easter, is undoubtedly the biggest single day...

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When God Is Silent: N.T. Wright on Lament and Faith

When the Spirit Groans In a recent episode of one of my favorite podcasts, "Everything...

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A Report from Theology Beer Camp

This past weekend I was at a conference in Denver called "Theology Beer Camp." If...

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The Fruit of the Spirit

A shorter version of this essay from Fall 2021 will be the entry for the...

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May 26, 2024

The Trinity Walks into a Bar . . .

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

May 19, 2024

The Holy Spirit’s Coming Out Party–A Pentecost Reflection

Two year ago I had the privilege of giving the Pentecost Sunday sermon at the...

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When God Sends Us the Bird

This coming Sunday is Pentecost, a celebration on when the Holy Spirit descended on a...

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April 17, 2024

What are God’s Pronouns?

RMy baseline criterion for whether a particular class has gone well is to answer the...

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Fast and Slow in the Life of Faith

I learned a couple of days ago on "Hidden Brain," one of my favorite podcasts,...

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November 02, 2023

Revisiting the Shy Deer-Soul Within Me

By all measures, this has already been a successful sabbatical (there are still two more...

September 2023

September 06, 2023

What Does the Bible Say About . . . ?

In an interview with CNN a few years ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said something that...

September 03, 2023

The Moral Life in One Sentence

A couple of years ago, I was interviewed in my office by a reporter from The...

August 2023

August 22, 2023

The Big Sister I Always Wanted: Remembering Marsue three years later

It doesn't seem possible that it has been exactly three years since Marsue Harris, one...

July 2023

July 02, 2023

Can We Negotiate With God?

Today's reading from the Jewish scriptures is Genesis 22, the well-known and infamous story of...

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...

June 04, 2023

Good Times with the Trinity

It’s Trinity Sunday. Don’t worry, I’m not going to try to explain that very strange...

May 2023

May 27, 2023

A Pentecost Reflection

Jeanne and I once watched a documentary called “Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action,” created,...

April 2023

April 27, 2023

Swimming in the Miraculous

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older...

November 2022

November 17, 2022

What I Have Learned From Our Blackberry Bush

It is mid-November; the leaves on the large oak tree in the yard diagonally behind...

September 2022

September 07, 2022

What Does the Bible Say about _____________?

In an interview with CNN a few years ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said something that...

July 2022

July 23, 2022

Negotiating with God

I have the privilege of giving the sermon today at Trinity Episcopal Church in Pawtuxet,...

June 2022

June 11, 2022

The Spiritual Life of Crows

My childhood was filled with unusual characters, all products of my father’s fertile imagination. A...

June 07, 2022

How Should a Normal Person Approach the Bible?

I recently came across a great podcast called “The Bible for Normal People,” hosted by...

May 2022

May 14, 2022

A Story About Learning to See Things Differently

In a comment on last Thursday’s blog post—“God is Not a Vending Machine”—a Facebook friend...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Organizing Books is My Charism

Last weekend, Jeanne and I took a quick trip to Greenville, South Carolina to attend...

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