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The Most Important and Influential Literary Character

Some time ago I read the first few pages of Greg Epstein’s Good without God....

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March 30, 2025

What Frieda the Dog Taught Me About Personhood

Be a Person Masterpiece Theater recently began a several week production of The Mirror and...

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...

December 2024

December 24, 2024

Christus Natus Est: Merry Christmas

Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...

August 2024

August 16, 2024

What I Learned About Teaching From My Favorite Movie

Last Sunday Jeanne and I had guests over for dinner whom we had not seen...

February 2024

February 20, 2024

The Difference Between Pardoning and Forgiveness

On this day after Presidents Day I'm thinking about a specific power that presidents uniquely...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

The Burden of Light

Teaching for thirty years in an interdisciplinary program with colleagues from a multitude of disciplines...

May 2023

May 09, 2023

Determined to Believe that We are Not Determined

In a recent edition of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik reviews two or three books...

April 2023

April 17, 2023

Drops Upon the Heart

In the interdisciplinary program I teach in and used to direct, the first semester faculty...

March 2023

March 26, 2023

To Truly Live, We Have to Die

In a podcast I was listening to while walking Bovina a few days ago, a...

January 2023

January 24, 2023

We are to be God in the World

This coming Sunday's gospel reading is the Beatitudes from Matthew, the opening lines from the...

January 03, 2023

Blessing The Crap Out Of Each Other

There are eight to ten movies that Jeanne and I watch religiously during the Christmas...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

“It has been done in your name”: A cautionary tale from Charles Dickens

This year Jeanne and I spent this year at home for Christmas for the first...

December 23, 2022

Have Yourself a Rashomon Christmas

A few years ago, I was asked to take on a temporary administrative position for...

December 10, 2022

Things are Getting Real: A Conversation Between Jesus and John the Baptist

In a second season episode of “The Chosen,” a multi-year cinematic treatment of the life...

November 2022

November 27, 2022

Happy Advent–Stay Awake!

Happy New Year! Today is the First Sunday of Advent, the first day of the...

August 2022

August 18, 2022

Die Before You Die

For many, the raising of Lazarus is Jesus' signature miracle, even though it is only...

August 14, 2022

“Whatever” is No Way to Live

Although I occasionally find myself immersed in things medieval with a bunch of freshmen in...

February 2022

February 13, 2022

Being God in the World

Today's gospel reading is Luke's abbreviated version of the Beatitudes. It is a scene so...

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January 11, 2022

Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, and the Power of Forgiveness

I, as well as the rest of the world, was saddened to hear of the...

December 2021

December 26, 2021

Jesus Goes to the Temple, and then gets grounded

Each week for many years, Garrison Keillor told “Prairie Home Companion” listeners the news from...

December 23, 2021

Merry Christmas: Christus Natus Est

Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...

November 2021

November 28, 2021

What Advent is Saying to Us: Stay Awake!

Today is the first day of the new Christian liturgical year--the First Sunday of Advent....

October 2021

October 14, 2021

The Ethics of Invisibility: What would you do if no one is watching?

Hey Justin! What if you had a ring that made you invisible when you put...

July 2021

July 12, 2021

A Portly Angel with a Boston Accent

Some have entertained angels unawares Hebrews 11:2 I’ve never known what to make of angels. I...

July 10, 2021

Getting Real: A Conversation Between Jesus and John the Baptist

In a recent episode of “The Chosen,” a multi-year cinematic treatment of the life of...

May 2021

May 15, 2021

Do You Want to be Healed?

My wife Jeanne and I have been enjoying “The Chosen,” a multi-year cinematic life of...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Speak What We Feel, Not What We Ought to Say

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shakespeare, King Lear Last week,...

January 2021

January 31, 2021

God Is Not Information

When we first moved to Rhode Island in the middle 1990s for my new teaching...

December 2020

December 03, 2020

Will Goodness Become Cool?

As President-elect Biden rolls out his National Security choices, his economic strategy team, his communications...

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