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March 2025

March 21, 2025

Sports Fanaticism and the Life of Faith

Today is day two of the four best sports days of the year. The first...

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 25, 2025

What is the Best Proof for the Existence of God?

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

February 14, 2025

Something for Valentine’s Day: Home for Each Other

Human love in the purest forms we can know it, wife and husband, parent and...

February 11, 2025

Seeing the Soul: Love, Beauty, and the Mystery of Connection

Beautiful Souls Because I'm a romantic at heart, I'll be posting two Valentine's Day-themed posts...

January 2025

January 28, 2025

Wearing the Gospel on your Sleeve

Rev. Dan Anderson, the pastor of the Lutheran church Jeanne attends and that I am...

January 26, 2025

You are Not Alone

The pastor of the Lutheran church Jeanne attends sends out a scripture verse or passage...

January 17, 2025

Why Mysteries are the Best Fictional Genre

I am currently two-thirds of the way through the second installment in Martin Walker's "Bruno,...

January 12, 2025

Remembering an Excellent Colleague and Friend

I have been in a somber mood for the last few days, ever since the...

January 05, 2025

Getting Ready for Epiphany

The Feast of the Epiphany is January 6. Let's consider the heart of this unique...

November 2024

November 12, 2024

Darkness, Silence, and Prayer

One Sunday some time ago as I was listening to our local NPR station in...

October 2024

October 31, 2024

Getting Rid of Halloween Jesus

It's Halloween. Halloween gives me the opportunity to consider my long and checkered past with...

October 22, 2024

A Report from Theology Beer Camp

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

August 2024

August 27, 2024

You have Permission to be Joyful

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:...

August 09, 2024

Where Hatred is Disguised as Love

A few days ago Jeanne said "I've got something you have to go to." I've...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

Memories of Olympics Past

It often is a surprise to those who know that I am a college professor...

July 17, 2024

Growing old together: An anniversary reflection

Thirty-six years ago today, two early thirty-somethings stood in front of their four parents and...

July 16, 2024

You might be a Bible-worshipper if . . .

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of “The Chosen,”...

June 2024

June 13, 2024

The Fruit of the Spirit

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

June 08, 2024

Sixty-Nine on 6/9: It’s Jeanne’s birthday!

Tomorrow is Jeanne's birthday, and it's a big one! As she's been telling everyone, she...

May 2024

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 21, 2024

Some Random Thoughts As We Enter Summer

Even though summer doesn’t officially begin for another month or so, for a college professor...

May 14, 2024

Perfection or Slight Improvement?

As I begin work on the final version of my forthcoming book A Year of...

May 10, 2024

She Opens Her Mouth with Wisdom: A Mother’s Day Reflection

Sunday is Mother's Day--it also happens to be Ascension Sunday, so this weekend gets a...

May 04, 2024

Weaponizing the Bible

The final meeting of my honors colloquium on Michel de Montaigne was last Thursday. It...

April 2024

April 25, 2024

It’s World Penguin Day!

A colleague from the history department with whom I have team-taught several times over the...

April 23, 2024

Of Betta Fish and Forgiveness

One day several years ago, Jeanne said “I want a fish.” This was a rather...

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,...

April 07, 2024

Thomas, Michel, and the Importance of Doubt

Jeanne and I spent Thursday through Saturday of Holy Week in a movie theater. We...

March 2024

March 24, 2024

Kicking Off Holy Week: “I’ll be Jesus”

The Palm Sunday celebration in a liturgical Christian church can be both confusing and jarring....

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