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July 2019

July 13, 2019

You mean THOSE people are my neighbors???

Not long ago, Jeanne and I saw “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”, the documentary about...

July 03, 2019

Compromise is Patriotic

I think it’s time for us to get a little bit more uncompromising in our...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

It’s My Life, and I’ll Die When I Want To

If you got to choose the manner of your death, what would your choice be?...

June 27, 2019

What Happens After You Die Isn’t That Important

A conversation involving a bunch of guys at a sports bar waiting for the big...

June 09, 2019

For Jeanne’s Birthday: You’re my guardian angel who keeps out the cold

Last week Jeanne and I went with a friend to see the Elton John biopic...

May 2019

May 09, 2019

I’ll Remember You

There is no greatness where there is no goodness, simplicity, or truth Leo Tolstoy Although Jeanne...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

What Do We Hope For?

“Now abide faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” These words...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

Why I Am Done Trying to Prove the Existence of God

If you think you understand it, it is not God. Soren Kierkegaard In Marilynne Robinson’s...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Choice, and “a certain lightness of heart”

On the recommendation of one of my colleagues, I recently read Alexander Waugh’s The House of...

February 21, 2019

A Year After Parkland: Do Guns in the Classroom Make Sense?

Valentine's Day last week marked the first anniversary of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Slouching Toward 2019

Love does not say “I ought to love”—it loves. Pity does not say “It is...

December 27, 2018

Murdering the Innocents: A Different Kind of Christmas Story

This Christmas season seems more dissonant than most, with violence across the globe, a partial...

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 11, 2018

Advent is for Introverts

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

December 09, 2018

Banging on the Door of Hope

We’ve all done this, we bang and bang on the door of hope, and don’t...

December 04, 2018

The Taming of Christmas, and How to Make it Wild Again

Just when you thought you had heard and read it all . . . "If...

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 13, 2018

A Foreign Widow, Seduction, and the Book of Ruth

One of my favorite features of liturgical worship is encountering familiar and favorite texts during...

November 11, 2018

Teach Us to Care and Not to Care

I began Election Day last Tuesday at the gym, riding the stationary bike for an...

November 04, 2018

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

A couple of months ago, Jeanne and I saw "Won't You Be My Neighbor?", the...

July 2018

July 15, 2018

What If God and Morality Have Nothing to Do with Each Other?

Is there any true transcendence, or is this idea always a consoling dream projected by...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

Why the Liberal Arts Matter

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough was the speaker at Providence College's Commencement exercises...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Moral Apocalypse

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shakespeare, King Lear This week,...

April 05, 2018

Jesus and Karl Marx walk into a bar . . .

We should read the New Testament as saying that how we treat each other on...

March 2018

March 13, 2018

Dr. Seuss, an Unborn Child, and Why Each Of Us Matters

Dr. Seuss was a regular in our house when my sons were young—my thirty-something sons...

March 11, 2018

Childish or Childlike?

One of stories that was emphasized regularly in the Baptist Sunday school of my youth...

March 01, 2018

A More Plausible God

In a couple of weeks, we will be starting a unit in my General Ethics...

February 2018

February 04, 2018

Keeping Hope Alive

The theme of a philosophy conference that I attended a couple of years ago was...

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