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I am Deeply Offended that Mike Pence is Deeply Offended
There are so many things that Vice President Mike Pence could be deeply offended by....
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We Have Met the Nazis, and They are Us
We ought not to hide from ourselves that Nazi Germany is a mirror for all...
January 12, 2019
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Donald Trump, and Stupidity
Why do intelligent people believe lies that are easily exposed as lies? Why do intelligent...
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December 09, 2018
We’ve all done this, we bang and bang on the door of hope, and don’t...
November 2018
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Does Christianity Solve the Problem of Evil? (spoiler alert: no, it doesn’t)
In the six-plus years that I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve occasionally been asked what...
November 11, 2018
Teach Us to Care and Not to Care
I began Election Day last Tuesday at the gym, riding the stationary bike for an...
November 06, 2018
Are the People in the Caravan My Neighbors?
If everybody is your neighbor, then nobody is. Rod Dreher Next semester, a colleague and...
September 2018
September 16, 2018
The Unexamined Faith Is Not Worth Having
He lived over two millennia ago, and as far as we know he never wrote...
August 2018
August 26, 2018
One of my favorite staff writers for The New Yorker is Rebecca Mead; she’s been...
August 19, 2018
In Lies We Believe Abut God, Wm. Paul Young (author of The Shack) tells the...
July 2018
July 04, 2018
On our collective natal day, I offer the following–shamelessly stolen from The Onion–for your Independence...
June 2018
June 25, 2018
You Don’t Have to Believe Everything You Think
I have grown weary of trying to understand the unquestioning support that Donald Trump receives...
June 23, 2018
Is America a Christian Nation? Should It Be?
A question that is almost guaranteed to start an argument in some circles goes to...
June 17, 2018
When to Be Skeptical, and When to Believe
Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the...
June 12, 2018
The God of History is an Atheist
Atheism is a purification Simone Weil Former President Obama loved to quote a hopeful statement from...
June 07, 2018
Pardons are in the news, particularly Presidential pardons. Presidential pardons are nothing new, and everyone...
May 2018
May 30, 2018
“America First” is a Theological Heresy
Memorial Day week is a time for solemn remembrance. It also tends to be a...
May 24, 2018
In “Slander,” from her latest collection of essays, What Are We Doing Here?, Marilynne Robinson...
May 01, 2018
So here we are, a year and a half since Donald Trump was elected President....
April 2018
April 26, 2018
White Privilege and the Gospels
In my General Ethics class, my students and I have just finished a three week...
April 19, 2018
A Liberal and a Christian Walk Into a Bar . . .
Not long ago, The Atlantic published an article by Emma Green entitled “Democrats Have a...
March 2018
March 25, 2018
At its best, faith is the overflow of gratitude, the attempt to live as if...
March 01, 2018
In a couple of weeks, we will be starting a unit in my General Ethics...
February 2018
February 27, 2018
Why Teachers Should Not Be Armed
As a proposed step in our continuing struggle to address gun violence in schools, President...
February 24, 2018
What I Can Do About Gun Violence
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February 11, 2018
Donald Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast
Last Thursday morning, the President tweeted the following: Will be heading over shortly to make...
January 2018
January 15, 2018
My father was a Baptist minister who was a voracious and eclectic reader. Often his...
December 2017
December 31, 2017
He Has Put Down the Mighty . . .
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December 30, 2017
God Said It. I Believe It. That Settles It–Best of “Bearings Online” #4
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