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Making the Truth Laugh: An April Fools Day Reflection

I know that today is Wednesday in Holy Week, but it is also April Fools...

February 2026

February 15, 2026

The World Can Shine Like Transfiguration

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent....

August 2025

August 17, 2025

Facts and Words

It's always interesting to see where my thoughts and writing take me when a new...

August 07, 2025

Peeking into the Mind of God

I once led a seminar with a number of colleagues from the Honors Program as...

July 2025

July 25, 2025

Let It Be

Every time I tell our Alexa to "play the Beatles," I stop what I'm doing...

February 2025

February 28, 2025

Longing to be Whole: A Transfiguration Sunday Reflection

This coming Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning...

February 18, 2025

Are You Tired of Being Angry Yet?

Do not letthe sun go down on your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 Although I have been...

December 2024

December 31, 2024

Hope for the New Year

Iin his end-of-the-year op-ed in the Washington Post at the end of 2021 Michael Gerson...

December 24, 2024

Christus Natus Est: Merry Christmas

Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...

December 22, 2024

The Fourth Sunday of Advent: Mother Mary Comes To Me

Three years ago I had the privilege of giving the Advent 4 sermon at Trinity...

December 15, 2024

Why Faith Can’t Avoid Being Political

I've been steering away from politics here ever since last month's election and intend to...

October 2024

October 01, 2024

Living the Social Gospel

Next week in the interdisciplinary program I teach in will be "Social Gospel" week. Students...

August 2024

August 30, 2024

Getting Comfortable with Paradox

It is standard fare for Christians to believe that human beings are made of body...

July 2024

July 21, 2024

Okay, fine. I’m a heretic.

I've spent significant time over the past fourteen or fifteen months immersed in the Bible....

May 2024

May 12, 2024

Ascension Day and the Olympics

The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are coming soon! On this Ascension Sunday I am...

April 2024

April 09, 2024

Fast and Slow in the Life of Faith

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

February 2024

February 15, 2024

A Terrible Beauty

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper. I cannot quite make...

January 2024

January 25, 2024

God Isn’t Angry At Us

A former student who wrote for our campus student newspaper once asked me during an...

January 23, 2024

What Exactly is a Freelance Christian?

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

December 2023

December 24, 2023

God Made Into Flesh

Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck,...

November 2023

November 28, 2023

Making Christmas Wild Again

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

July 2023

July 05, 2023

Is There Life Before Death?

A few years ago I had the opportunity to hear one of my heroes give...

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 27, 2023

Why Don’t You Just Admit that You’re a Heretic?

One of my favorite passages from the Gospels is when Jesus is asked “Which is...

May 2023

May 18, 2023

It’s Hard to Talk About God

In our recently completed “Faith and Doubt” colloquium, my Dominican priest colleague and I filled...

April 2023

April 23, 2023

Jesus, Cleopas, and Bob have a Conversation about Hope

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

February 2023

February 19, 2023

Longing to be Whole: A Reflection for Transfiguration Sunday

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent....

January 2023

January 07, 2023

Jesus and John Gather at the River

The season of Epiphany, squeezed in between the Christmas season and Lent, is the annual...

December 2022

December 23, 2022

Have Yourself a Rashomon Christmas

A few years ago, I was asked to take on a temporary administrative position for...

December 22, 2022

Returning Straight to Jesus at Christmas

This has been an unusual Advent season. Advent is my favorite season in the liturgical...

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