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June 2020

June 20, 2020

How to Avoid Being Stupid

Why do intelligent people believe lies that are easily exposed as lies? Why do intelligent...

June 14, 2020

What Does Life Expect of Me?

Over the years, a typical scenario has unfolded when I meet someone for the first...

June 10, 2020

Interfaith Travel, and a Reminder that No One Owns God

There are several contemporary writers on spiritual issues and matters of faith whose work I...

June 05, 2020

From Solitude to God

The building looked like the love child of a logic problem and a crossword puzzle....

April 2020

April 16, 2020

Faith in a Time of Doubt and Uncertainty

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty Anne Lamott We are currently living...

April 02, 2020

“I Don’t Know”: The most profoundly religious statement of all

Let me tell you here first, “trust in God” has never floated my boat as...

February 2020

February 20, 2020

Professional Wrestling and the Liberal Agenda

My tattoo-artist oldest son reported in a phone conversation the other day that one of...

February 06, 2020

No Sacred Cows: An Exchange Between an Atheist and a Person of Faith

One of the many things that make teaching a rewarding vocation is receiving unsolicited testimonials...

January 2020

January 14, 2020

Life Lessons Learned from “The Muppet Show”

I have a good friend and colleague in the philosophy department who has twin daughters....

January 04, 2020

On the Art of Discussion: How to Avoid Being an Ass

In final preparation for the spring semester that will begin in ten days, I am...

November 2019

November 08, 2019

Does God Exist? What would a betting person say?

During a recent unit in my General Ethics class called “Does ethics have anything to...

October 2019

October 24, 2019

To My Atheist Friends: This is why I call myself “Christian”

Every once in a while--it seems like about once every six months or so--I post...

October 17, 2019

How to Tell if You are More Christian Than I Am

If we remembered that water takes its color from the vessel containing it, we would...

October 15, 2019

A Story from Syria: Listen to People Other than Yourself

As the expected chaos and violence in Turkey and Syria continue to develop in the...

October 13, 2019

Has Donald Trump Lost the Mandate of Heaven?

Evangelical Christian icon and fossil Pat Robertson lost it a few days ago. On his...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

Why No One Has the Right to be “Comfortable”

An item popped up on my Facebook news feed a couple of days ago reporting...

September 10, 2019

Dear Trump Supporters: Believing Something Doesn’t Make It True

I have grown weary of trying to understand the unquestioning support that Donald Trump receives...

September 03, 2019

What Lies About God Do You Believe?

In Lies We Believe Abut God, Wm. Paul Young (author of The Shack) tells the story of...

August 2019

August 29, 2019

The Life of a College Professor: Nice Work if You Can Get It

It's the first week of the new academic year, which is always a good time...

August 13, 2019

Maybe It’s Time For A Revolution

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

June 2019

June 06, 2019

The Greatest Task of All is to Live

For the past several years my upper-division (juniors and seniors) classes have included an ongoing...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Say Something Profound

At the end of each academic year, I tend to reflect back on the past...

May 19, 2019

To the Graduates . . .

Today is my college's Commencement Day. I've been to more than thirty college graduation events,...

March 2019

March 24, 2019

Oysters, Ballerinas, and a Reminder that No One Owns God

There are several contemporary writers on spiritual issues and matters of faith whose work I...

March 17, 2019

Why I Am Done Trying to Prove the Existence of God

If you think you understand it, it is not God. Soren Kierkegaard In Marilynne Robinson’s...

March 10, 2019

Lifting the Fog from Faith

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

February 2019

February 17, 2019

An Excuse Not To Think

I recently read the following observations: They weren’t such bad fellows. He had mixed with...

February 02, 2019

The Super Bowl and the F-Word

The Super Bowl is upon us! As an avid Patriots fan, I feel perfectly comfortable...

January 2019

January 12, 2019

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Donald Trump, and Stupidity

Why do intelligent people believe lies that are easily exposed as lies? Why do intelligent...

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...

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