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May 2018

May 01, 2018

Taking a Moral Holiday

So here we are, a year and a half since Donald Trump was elected President....

April 2018

April 15, 2018

“Give Unto Caesar”: It’s an Expression of Love

A recent edition of The New Yorker had a timely cartoon on the back page....

April 01, 2018

An Easter Cautionary Tale: Jesus Isn’t Walking Through That Door

God is not an insurance agent. H. G. Wells During Rick Pitino’s tenure as the...

March 2018

March 25, 2018

The Feather of Grace, or How To Keep Donald Trump and Evangelical Christians From Corrupting Your Faith

At its best, faith is the overflow of gratitude, the attempt to live as if...

March 15, 2018

The Christian Faith In a Nutshell

Sports fans old enough to remember the 70s and 80s will recall that a regular...

March 11, 2018

Childish or Childlike?

One of stories that was emphasized regularly in the Baptist Sunday school of my youth...

March 06, 2018

A Few Things That I Know To Be True

Today is my birthday, so I ask for your indulgence. Our culture tends to assume...

February 2018

February 13, 2018

Lent is for Lovers

This year, for the first time since 1945, Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day fall on...

January 2018

January 15, 2018

A S**thole Town Like Nazareth

My father was a Baptist minister who was a voracious and eclectic reader. Often his...

January 07, 2018

An Epiphany

Today is the First Sunday after the Epiphany (which was celebrated yesterday). I'm at a...

December 2017

December 19, 2017

When a Prophet Speaks, People Listen (or at least they should)

The third Sunday of Advent is always John the Baptist Sunday; last Sunday's reading from...

December 14, 2017

The Great Homesickness

I was the world’s most pathetic camper. One of the (alleged) rewards for 12-15 weeks of...

December 12, 2017

It’s About Time

Time has been on my mind recently. A couple of months ago in my freshman...

December 05, 2017

The Greater Jihad

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

December 03, 2017

What Advent Teaches Us About Ourselves

In Philosophical Fragments, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard tells a lovely story about a powerful king who...

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Another Book That May Change Your Life

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence....

November 16, 2017

Spiritual Punctuation

In my life-long spiritual journey, the decade of my twenties was the charismatic decade. No,...

October 2017

October 24, 2017

Ordinary Miracles

Every year, between Pentecost and the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the lectionary takes us through week...

October 03, 2017

Spare Parts

Last Sunday was Saint Francis Sunday, a celebration that rivals Easter and Christmas at the...

August 2017

August 27, 2017

Ten Years On

Ten years ago this summer, I attended a writers conference for the first time in...

August 13, 2017

It Isn’t Working

April may be the cruelest month, if T. S. Eliot is correct, but for teachers,...

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 07, 2017

An Exploding Heart

Last fall I had the opportunity to give the sermon on stewardship Sunday at my...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Let Us Cultivate our Garden

What is one to do when what one professes to believe has become, as Macbeth...

June 16, 2017

The Theology of Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman believes that the conflict between good and evil is a zero sum game,...

June 14, 2017

Repairing the World

Jews and Christians agree on many things. One of the most important things they agree...

June 09, 2017

The Little Red-Haired Girl

It is my blog custom on my wife Jeanne's birthday to post a reflection on...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

All Dogs Go To Heaven

Do dogs go to heaven? Some people turn this into a convoluted theological debate--Do dogs...

May 22, 2017

Trump at Liberty University

There are many possible reasons why evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump in record numbers....

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...

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