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Roofs, Vineyards, and the Kingdom of Heaven
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So that just happened. In a wide-ranging “conversation” with reporters on the White House lawn...
July 2019
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Robert Mueller, “Hamilton,” and Taking Our Country Back
As millions of other Americans, I awoke last Wednesday intending to binge watch the Mueller...
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Anyone who reads this blog regularly or even occasionally knows that I love movies. Solidly...
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper. I cannot quite make...
April 03, 2019
Faith By the Skin of Your Teeth
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy...
March 2019
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Partnering with God (even when one isn’t sure who or what God is)
A Jewish friend of mine told me a number of years ago that Judaism is...
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January 29, 2019
“You are the Man”: Speaking Truth to Power
Not long ago, my wife Jeanne decided to audit a graduate theology course on campus...
January 24, 2019
Creating the World in the Classroom
Imagine a jigsaw puzzle, a thousand pieces or more. There is no box showing what...
January 03, 2019
Paying Attention to What’s Behind the Curtain
Not long ago I led a seminar with a number of colleagues from the Honors...
November 2018
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...
October 2018
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Assisting the Absent God: Helping to Repair a Broken World
Every once in a while someone posts a comment on my blog that reminds me...
October 14, 2018
What People of Faith and Atheists Can Agree On
About half way through the 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin...
September 2018
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What the Author Meant May Not Matter
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August 2018
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Last Tuesday, on the sixth anniversary of my blog, I posted my first blog post--an...
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I grew up in hunting country where at the appropriate times each year the males...
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To Live In Safety and Without Fear
Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree, and there shall...
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God is Just a Story (and so are we)
Although the name of this blog is “Freelance Christianity,” and it is published on Patheos’...
June 2018
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Pardons are in the news, particularly Presidential pardons. Presidential pardons are nothing new, and everyone...
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Organized religion often is a source of packaged answers and comfortable solutions to important questions...
May 2018
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