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July 2023

July 13, 2023

Why Is God So Wasteful?

As of next month, I will have been blogging for eleven years. As I suspect...

June 2023

June 24, 2023

How to Be the Resurrection

Lead on King Eternal, the day of march has come Henceforth in fields of conquest Thy...

June 22, 2023

How to Drink Coffee Like a Stoic

If you are fond of a cup, say “I am fond of a cup!” For...

June 17, 2023

Of Jackalopes and Loons

I just finished a lovely week with my brother Vaughn and sister-in-law LaVona in Santa...

June 11, 2023

Have an Introspective Day

In our three years in Milwaukee, our first years together as a married couple trying...

June 06, 2023

Ordinary Lives in Ordinary Time

So here we are in Ordinary Time, the longest liturgical season that will stretch until...

June 04, 2023

Good Times with the Trinity

It’s Trinity Sunday. Don’t worry, I’m not going to try to explain that very strange...

June 02, 2023

Reading the Bible as Literarily (not literally) True

Last week I participated in a two-day end-of-the-academic-year workshop with a dozen fellow faculty in...

May 2023

May 10, 2023

What I Learned From My Father

One of the most important things an author has to write when a book is...

May 04, 2023

Various Ways of Saying “Hello” to God

You can either think of the creeds of the great traditions . . . as...

April 2023

April 30, 2023

A Bunch of Communists in the Book of Acts

I have been accused frequently over the years by commenters on my blog and on...

April 27, 2023

Swimming in the Miraculous

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older...

April 25, 2023

The Story of God and Us

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

April 13, 2023

Jesus, Death, and Taxes

Thanks to the calendar, we get three extra days to file our taxes this year...

April 09, 2023

When Easter Fades, Where is Jesus to be Found?

God is not an insurance agent. H. G. Wells If you are a college basketball...

April 02, 2023

Blessed is He Who Comes: A Palm Sunday Meditation

Today is Palm Sunday, one of the most dramatic days on the liturgical calendar. But...

March 2023

March 28, 2023

Trouble With the Language Police

I was in church for the first time in a month or so recently and...

March 19, 2023

The Thick Darkness Where God Is

Most everyone is familiar with the opening lines of Genesis, where we are told that...

March 12, 2023

How to Educate a Story-Telling Animal

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

March 07, 2023

Living with “Moment Faith”

After spending six and a half decades in the middle of this faith thing, one...

February 2023

February 22, 2023

A Tale of Ash Wednesday and Lent

One Wednesday last winter, the student in front of me in line at the little...

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 12, 2023

What Are We Fighting For?

During my sabbatical semester over a decade ago at an ecumenial institute on the campus...

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....

February 04, 2023

What Can We Do Now That There Is No God?

One of the matters I am paying close attention to this semester, as I prepare...

February 02, 2023

Being and Discovering a Sacred Space

In his biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson tells us that one of the...

January 2023

January 28, 2023

An Epiphany Worthy of the Season

I have heard of you with my ears, but now my eyes have seen you. The...

January 26, 2023

Deciding Whom You Belong To

Five years ago, my college celebrated its centennial. For Jeanne and me, the highlight of...

January 22, 2023

When the Well Runs Dry

Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In...

January 19, 2023

Be Like a Tree

There are two kinds of living things. They are distinguished by the strategies they have...

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