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June 24, 2023

How to Be the Resurrection

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

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July 11, 2022

My Neighbor May Not Be the Person I Think It Is

I recently found myself in the midst of a Facebook discussion, the sort of online...

January 2021

January 21, 2021

The Best of 2020 #3: Why are Christians So Angry and Fearful?

Coming in at #3 in my "Best of 2020" blog post lineup is "Why are...

September 2020

September 08, 2020

Living On the Edges of the Christian Circus Tent

Jeanne and I celebrated our 32nd anniversary in July—the gifts we gave each other are...

July 2020

July 26, 2020

Why are Christians So Angry and Fearful?

I am currently working my way through Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s brand new book Jesus...

November 2018

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...

September 2018

September 11, 2018

Seventeen Years Ago Today

Two years ago, the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 fell on a Sunday. The priest of...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

Is Israel in the West? and other questions from the classroom

Swirling around the dedication of the new United States embassy in Jerusalem this week have...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

I Am Not Special, and Neither Are You

The Disrupter-in-Chief threw a verbal grenade into a Rose Garden event with Mitch McConnell by...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

The Muslim/Christian Brotherhood

Reza Aslan is a Muslim; I am a Christian. But we share something fundamentally important...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

Turning Around

Conversion is an odd phenomenon. I've often observed that those who convert, who ''tum around"...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

West of What?

The heart of Providence College’s core curriculum is the Development of Western Civilization (DWC) program,...

September 23, 2016

The Right Niyyah

As I wait impatiently for my sabbatical that is under contract with a publisher to...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

A Free Man of Faith

I wrote this essay last Saturday as a reflection on Muhammad Ali's memorial service that...

June 11, 2016

Simply “The Greatest”

Upon hearing a week ago that Muhammad Ali had passed away, I posted something very...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

Fear Itself

Long security lines at O'Hare airport. A plane falls out of the sky flying from...

April 2016

April 16, 2016

Red and Blue Bubbles

As Jeanne and I do various things in the house on Saturdays, we often have...

March 2016

March 02, 2016

The Ghosts of Jesus Past

My birthday is in four days (the big 6-0), so I'm doing a bit of...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Inquiring Minds

Not long ago I had the chance to read a novel by Ian McEwan that...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Give Us Barabbas

An annual musical fixture of my Baptist upbringing was the Easter Cantata. Each year on...

January 02, 2016

Goliath was a Wimp: Random Observations for the New Year

The first measurable winter precipitation of the season rolled through town last Monday night, on...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Moving On

“Get a picture of yourself ten years from now in your mind,” I said to...

June 2014

June 16, 2014

Conversion

Conversion is an odd phenomenon. I've often observed that those who convert, who ''tum around"...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

What I Have Learned From My Students This Semester

I have often said that the mark of a good class is one in which...

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