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What Can We Do Now That There Is No God?
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“With Mutual Respect”–An Exercise in Eloquent Listening
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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...
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When People of Good Faith have Incompatible First Principles on the Abortion Issue
I had an unusually positive experience a couple of days ago—amazingly enough, it was in...
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Save Your Thoughts and Prayers. Do Something
Here we are again. Mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvaldi in the past few days,...
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Have Yourself an Introspective Day
In our three years in Milwaukee, our first years together as a married couple trying...
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I am currently rereading Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway for one of my team-taught...
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The (White) Privilege of “Blending In”
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January 17, 2022
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He Has Put Down the Mighty From Their Throne
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Mansplaining in the Bible, and a Woman Who Overcame It
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Is There Reason to be Optimistic? Seriously?
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