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March 22, 2026

Can These Bones Live?

Today is Lent 5--the gospel text is John 11, John's account of the raising of...

September 2025

September 04, 2025

In Pursuit of Being Fit: The Facts and My Story

I started reading a new book this past week: A Liberation Theology of the Brain:...

June 2025

June 08, 2025

Pentecost: Big Bird is In the House

The Day of Pentecost, next to Christmas and Easter, is undoubtedly the biggest single day...

May 2025

May 22, 2025

Wanting to Be Healed

In a perfect world, I would never give a written final exam in any class...

March 2025

March 25, 2025

Lazarus and the Call to Die Before You Die

Die Before You Die Yesterday afternoon I participated in a "Post-Sabbatical Presentation" event on campus...

January 2025

January 19, 2025

Jesus Makes an Adult Beverage

My relationship with adult beverages began when I was in high school. Of course, 95%...

January 07, 2025

My Word for 2025

Anne Lamott tells the story of an older woman who, along with other active geriatric...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

Memories of Olympics Past

It often is a surprise to those who know that I am a college professor...

July 27, 2024

Jesus Caters a Very Large Picnic

Today's gospel is the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand, one of the few...

June 2024

June 18, 2024

Feeding the Hungry Stranger

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

March 2024

March 31, 2024

I See You: An Easter Reflection

Easter Sunday--the most triumphant day on the Christian liturgical calendar. According to New Testament scholar...

February 2024

February 01, 2024

Is Religion a Virus?

The last time I was a member of a search committee for a new tenure...

November 2023

November 07, 2023

Disability Theology

One of the speakers at the Evolving Faith 2023 conference that Jeanne and I attended...

August 2023

August 20, 2023

Even the Best of Us has Bad Days

A conversation heard behind the scenes: Dude! Did you see what just happened?? How could...

August 03, 2023

Did He Walk On the Water or Didn’t He?

The summer Sunday gospel readings annually are full of Jesus' greatest hits, including feeding the...

April 2023

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 23, 2023

Jesus, Cleopas, and Bob have a Conversation about Hope

“Now abide faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” These words...

April 11, 2023

A Very Reluctant Rose

A few days ago on campus I detected a familiar, seasonal odor wafting on the...

February 2023

February 24, 2023

Why Did Jesus Turn Water Into Wine?

This is the third day of Lent. Are you one of those people who give...

February 19, 2023

Longing to be Whole: A Reflection for Transfiguration Sunday

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent....

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...

December 2022

December 18, 2022

A Stepfather with a Questionable Pedigree

In my religious tradition, we didn’t do saints. But we did do Christmas pageants—big time....

December 01, 2022

An Advent Wish: Peace Be to You

Advent began last Sunday. For many reasons, Advent is my favorite season of the liturgical...

November 2022

November 08, 2022

Why Stories are Better than Arguments

The best argument in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that...

October 2022

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...

September 2022

September 04, 2022

Exploring the Studio Space with God

Guess what? I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. Bruce Dickinson Regular...

August 2022

August 27, 2022

What the Wounds on Jesus’ Resurrected Body Tell Us

I consider myself to be well informed and well read, but every once in a...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson and a Story from Ancient Syria

Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the January 6th Select Committee last Tuesday was both powerful and...

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