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December 2022

December 13, 2022

The Incarnation or the Resurrection?

A few years ago, a Facebook friend posted a poll on her site. The question...

December 07, 2022

Why Should We Be Hopeful?

Herodotus is considered to be the first true historian in the contemporary sense of the...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Living the Social Gospel: Your faith is not just about you

In the interdisiplinary and team-taught honors course I am teaching in this academic year, we...

November 27, 2022

Happy Advent–Stay Awake!

Happy New Year! Today is the First Sunday of Advent, the first day of the...

November 25, 2022

Get Thee Behind Me, Santa!

Today is Black Friday, on my shortlist of candidates for the stupidest day of the...

September 2022

September 05, 2022

What Does the Lord Require of Us? A Labor Day Reflection

There are a couple of sayings attributed to Jesus that Christians often use when attempting...

August 2022

August 11, 2022

Jesus Taught Us How To Be Human

Jeanne asked me a question about my blog the other day that, after I stopped...

July 2022

July 30, 2022

Some Crooked Things Don’t Need to be Made Straight

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

July 23, 2022

Negotiating with God

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

June 2022

June 25, 2022

Why Christians Should Care About Their Bodies

In last Thursday's blog post, I wrote about how the problematic philosophical theory of dualism...

June 23, 2022

Problems with the Soul

Last week I posted an essay called “Left-Brain Christianity or Right-Brain Faith?” which discussed the...

May 2022

May 28, 2022

Passing the Baton: An Ascension Sunday Reflection

A disturbingly common mishap in recent Summer Olympic games has been the failure of U.S....

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Jesus on April Fools Day

I know it's the middle of Lent, but tomorrow is April Fools Day. It's the...

March 20, 2022

The Will of God: How to Know It?

Midterm grades are due on my campus by midnight Wednesday; last Wednesday was the official...

March 06, 2022

It’s My 66th Birthday, and I’m Still Here. Deal with it.

Early last week a friend emailed me the following comment in response to my latest...

February 2022

February 16, 2022

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each...

December 2021

December 28, 2021

He Has Put Down the Mighty From Their Throne

Today on the liturgical calendar is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the day that...

December 21, 2021

When Your Favorite Thing Breaks

If you are fond of a cup, say “I am fond of a cup!” For...

December 19, 2021

There Will Be An Answer: Let It Be

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

December 15, 2021

Advent for Dummies–How to do the season

We seek retreats for ourselves in country places, on beaches and mountains . . ....

December 09, 2021

A Cosmic Homecoming

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

December 06, 2021

“On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Living the Social Gospel

At the end of the first of two semesters in the interdisiplinary and team-taught honors...

December 05, 2021

Our Reason to Hope

Jeanne got on the Amtrak early one Sunday morning not that long ago, beginning two...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

Advent and the Gift of Being Human

In Philosophical Fragments, 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard tells a lovely story about a powerful king...

November 28, 2021

What Advent is Saying to Us: Stay Awake!

Today is the first day of the new Christian liturgical year--the First Sunday of Advent....

November 04, 2021

A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma

November is a month of transitions. Here in New England, we are squarely in the...

November 02, 2021

The Tweet of God

As is the case with many of the things in my life, my knowledge of...

September 2021

September 04, 2021

Jesus and Capitalism: A Labor Day Reflection

There are a couple of sayings attributed to Jesus that Christians often use when attempting...

June 2021

June 27, 2021

It’s Time to Get Back to Work

As we continue to move toward "normalcy" after close to a year-and-a-half of pandemic shut...

June 04, 2021

God is Doing the Most that God Can Do

Frank Tupper, an important Baptist theologian who argued that God is in control of very...

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