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July 2017

July 23, 2017

Be Ye Therefore Slightly Improved

Jesus said 'Be ye therefore perfect." Wouldn't it have been more sensible for him to...

July 19, 2017

A Sower Went Forth To Sow . . .

Every writer knows that writing is an inefficient and non-economical process. One never knows when...

July 14, 2017

The Western Tradition in Eighteen Windows

Your assignment is to name the eighteen most important figures in the Western liberal arts...

July 11, 2017

The Virtues of Atheism

A fresh look at my world without God-tinted lenses reveals that suffering and violence are...

July 09, 2017

The Burden of LIght

In today's gospel, Jesus says that his yoke is easy and his burden is light....

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Facts, Words, and the Word

The depths of divine love cannot be exhausted by words, by speech, by texts, by...

June 28, 2017

A Liberal’s Worst Nightmare

Liberals are appalled by the provisions of the health care bill that Republicans are trying...

June 12, 2017

Carbonated Holiness

Anne Lamott defines laughter as Carbonated Holiness. These days, we could use a lot more...

June 02, 2017

Radical Forgiveness

From the book of Acts, a story of a person who experienced radical forgiveness, then...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

Is Democracy Overrated?

In an early season of "House of Cards," Frank Underwood observes that "democracy is so...

May 26, 2017

How to know the will of God

God has given us everything we need to address the problems in front of us....

May 19, 2017

A Message to the Graduates: How to be Good

If I had the opportunity to give the graduating seniors a bit of advice, I...

May 13, 2017

Everybody Must Get Stoned

One of the readings from this Sunday's lectionary is the story of the stoning of...

May 12, 2017

My Imaginary Friend

There are billions of human beings who shape their whole reality and might even stake...

May 05, 2017

Joy in a Minor Key

Richard Powers write that there’s joy in a minor key, a deep pleasure to be...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Wolf Hall

Christian Wiman writes that "every single expression of faith is provisional . . . because...

April 24, 2017

There is no one but us

Sometime things happen that make me want to seriously consider atheism. A three-year old child...

April 20, 2017

Dodge City Ethics

A Old Wild West conversation in Tombstone between a consumptive dentist and the sheriff's younger...

April 15, 2017

Mortals Die, and are Laid Low

On Holy Saturday, it is good to remember our mortality. "Mortals die, and are laid...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Quiet Ignorance

Over the past several years, I have frequently returned to a question that a friend...

March 24, 2017

Clean Hands

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy...

March 22, 2017

Come In, and Come In

Once many years ago, a couple I was close friends with was having marital problems....

March 10, 2017

The Problem of Goodness

During the early years of my career I developed the habit of teaching at least...

March 10, 2017

The Problem of Goodness

During the early years of my career I developed the habit of teaching at least...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Just Do It

In the early hours of a Sunday morning not long ago, I read the final...

February 20, 2017

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

It's President's Day, which for all college professors means--as do all Monday holidays in the...

February 17, 2017

Socratic Faith

He lived over two millennia ago, and as far as we know he never wrote...

February 14, 2017

Valentine’s Day for the Mature

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

February 10, 2017

Saying What Cannot Be Said

I recently led a discussion group focused, among other things, on the inadequacy of traditional religious...

February 01, 2017

Playing with Fire

Somewhere I heard or read that one of the top television programs in Finland (or...

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