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March 2026

March 25, 2026

White Privilege in the Classroom

Today I am starting a unit on race issues in my ethics class. For the...

February 2026

February 22, 2026

The Full Garden Story

Today is the first Sunday of Lent; the gospel reading is always one a treatment...

October 2025

October 05, 2025

He Who Increases Knowledge Increases Sorrow

Last week I posted an essay called “In Much Wisdom There is Much Grief,” inspired...

August 2025

August 07, 2025

Peeking into the Mind of God

I once led a seminar with a number of colleagues from the Honors Program as...

May 2025

May 15, 2025

The President and the Cult of Ignorance

It was about five years ago, in the height of the pandemic during the closing...

September 2024

September 27, 2024

Why We Believe Things That Aren’t True

Over the years that I have been writing this blog, those who describe themselves as...

September 24, 2024

How to Make God Interesting

It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for a [non-Christian] to hear a Christian, supposedly...

September 20, 2024

Why Being Uncomfortable is a Good Thing

A new podcast that I've been enjoying recently is Ali Velshi's "Banned Book Club"--I highly...

September 15, 2024

Comfort is vastly overrated

In the interdisciplinary, team-taught course I am participating in this semester, we spent our second...

June 2024

June 18, 2024

Feeding the Hungry Stranger

In the honors interdisciplinary program I teach in, my colleagues and I have chosen over...

June 02, 2024

We are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

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

May 2024

May 02, 2024

Big News, and a Blast from the Past!

First, some big news! Yesterday I signed a contract for my book A Year of...

January 2024

January 09, 2024

This I Believe–and that’s not a good thing

A number of years ago, at the end of a presentation to fellow resident scholars...

November 2023

November 09, 2023

Why Traditional “Solutions” to the Problem of Evil Don’t Work

In the most recent episode of their podcast “The Bible for Normal People,” Pete Enns...

July 2023

July 23, 2023

You Say You Want a Revolution?

There is a saying, particularly popular among conservatives, that “A conservative is a liberal who...

July 18, 2023

Do I Teach or Am I a Teacher? On Being a Verb Rather than a Noun

I have two book projects in the works these days. I just finished a full...

May 2023

May 18, 2023

It’s Hard to Talk About God

In our recently completed “Faith and Doubt” colloquium, my Dominican priest colleague and I filled...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

Lifting the Fog from Faith

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence...

February 2023

February 21, 2023

A More Interesting God through Evolution

It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for a [non-Christian] to hear a Christian, supposedly...

February 16, 2023

Balancing Humility with Expertise

As I continue early preparation for the book on the teaching life that I hope...

February 09, 2023

Why I am Triggered by Trigger Warnings

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace....

December 2022

December 29, 2022

Is it the end of us? An end-of-the-year reflection

He who loves his life will lose it. John 12:25 I subscribe to two magazines, The...

November 2022

November 01, 2022

Betting on God’s Existence

In my ethics class this week, we discussed an essay by Gary Gutting, who teaches...

October 2022

October 16, 2022

Mapping Ghosts and Believing Things that Aren’t True

Over the years that I have been writing this blog, those who describe themselves as...

October 11, 2022

If You Meet a Stranger and If He’s Hungry, Feed Him

Yesterday was Columbus Day. Correction, it was Indigenous Peoples Day. This is not energized by...

October 09, 2022

We Don’t Need to Protect God

Human beings never behave so badly as when they believe they are protecting God. Barbara Brown...

August 2022

August 02, 2022

A Trip to the Zoo Reminds Me of My Mother

Jeanne and I hosted our grand-nephews last week--I forgot what it is like to have...

June 2022

June 07, 2022

How Should a Normal Person Approach the Bible?

I recently came across a great podcast called “The Bible for Normal People,” hosted by...

May 2022

May 10, 2022

Saying Something Profound

Regular classes for the spring semester ended last Friday--semesters seem to go by more quickly...

March 2022

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...

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