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October 09, 2019
Stop Trying to Resurrect a Dead God
One of my greatest joys as a philosophy professor is that I get to be...
September 2019
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Reason Touched By Grace: Getting Faith and Intellect on the Same Page
A few days ago, Pete Buttigeig, mayor of South Bend and candidate for the Democratic...
August 2019
August 27, 2019
What is the Best Evidence that God is Real?
In her wonderful memoir Take This Bread, Sara Miles tells us of a conversation she had...
August 20, 2019
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall...
August 15, 2019
One Sunday, I decided to pay close attention to the words of the Nicene Creed...
August 01, 2019
Facing the Greatest Fear of All
Have you never felt like one of those pawns forgotten in a corner of the...
July 2019
July 23, 2019
Crows, Ravens, Golden Eagles, and the Holy Spirit
My childhood was filled with unusual characters, all products of my father’s fertile imagination. A...
July 07, 2019
What Are We Doing When We Pray?
I am currently in the middle of working through the proofs of my forthcoming book,...
June 2019
June 27, 2019
What Happens After You Die Isn’t That Important
A conversation involving a bunch of guys at a sports bar waiting for the big...
May 2019
May 21, 2019
Rise, Kill, and Eat: A Story About Learning to See Things Differently
Iris Murdoch was one of the philosophers whose work was front and center in my...
May 07, 2019
Why Did Jesus Like Little Children So Much?
One of the stories that was emphasized regularly in the Baptist Sunday school of my...
April 2019
April 30, 2019
According to the reading from John’s gospel at church a couple of days ago, one...
April 21, 2019
Now I See You: An Easter Reflection
Easter Sunday--the most triumphant day on the Christian liturgical calendar. According to New Testament scholar...
April 14, 2019
Blessed Is He Who Comes: A Palm Sunday Reflection
Today is Palm Sunday, one of the most dramatic days on the liturgical calendar. But...
April 10, 2019
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper. I cannot quite make...
April 05, 2019
From Living Stones to Spiritual Houses
The Bible is filled with rocks. The patriarchs pile rocks up every time they want...
March 2019
March 17, 2019
Why I Am Done Trying to Prove the Existence of God
If you think you understand it, it is not God. Soren Kierkegaard In Marilynne Robinson’s...
March 10, 2019
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence...
February 2019
February 17, 2019
I recently read the following observations: They weren’t such bad fellows. He had mixed with...
February 10, 2019
What Can We Do Now That There Is No God?
Several weeks into the new year, I am for the first time getting to teach...
January 2019
January 24, 2019
Creating the World in the Classroom
Imagine a jigsaw puzzle, a thousand pieces or more. There is no box showing what...
January 10, 2019
Just Your Typical Family, or Jesus Gets Grounded
Each week for many years, Garrison Keillor told “Prairie Home Companion” listeners the news from...
January 06, 2019
I read a fascinating article in the November 2018 edition of The Atlantic that explores the various...
December 2018
December 30, 2018
On Christmas Eve morning, I noticed that a Facebook friend had posted a poll on...
December 23, 2018
I have a colleague and friend with whom I share a lot in common. Eric...
December 04, 2018
The Taming of Christmas, and How to Make it Wild Again
Just when you thought you had heard and read it all . . . "If...
December 02, 2018
Advent and the Blessing of Being Human
Each Advent for the past eight years, I have had the privilege of giving a...
November 2018
November 29, 2018
Trailing Clouds of Glory, We Come From God
As we approach the Advent and Christmas seasons, I am in a forward-looking and hopeful...
November 27, 2018
This is Why I am Not an Atheist
Despite my consistent self-description as a “person of faith,” I have been accused occasionally over...
October 2018
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