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July 2020

July 03, 2020

“There Shall be None to Make Him Afraid”–An Independence Day Reflection

Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree, and there shall...

April 2020

April 16, 2020

Faith in a Time of Doubt and Uncertainty

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty Anne Lamott We are currently living...

April 07, 2020

God is a Question. What is the Answer?

In my General Ethics course, we just completed a unit called “Does God have anything...

April 05, 2020

Palm Sunday and the Teaching Life

With Palm Sunday begins what will be the strangest Holy Week of my lifetime. The...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Visions of (the) Rapture Now Burst On My Sight

Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight; Angels, descending, bring...

March 11, 2020

The Gospel in a Nutshell

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

March 02, 2020

God Is Doing the Best that God Can Do

Frank Tupper, an important Baptist theologian who argued that God is in control of very...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Best of 2019 #2: Noah and his Children–Bad News for White Evangelical Christians

Last November, I used a Michael Gerson essay as a jumping off point for a...

January 06, 2020

An Epiphany in Real Time

Yesterday was the Feast of the Epiphany, the first day of the liturgical season that...

December 2019

December 12, 2019

“It has been done in your name”: A Dickensian Tale of “Good Christians” Doing Harm

One of my teaching teammates this past semester in the interdisciplinary course I regularly participate...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

One Wife for Seven Brothers: An important lesson from a strange story

A strange story from Luke's gospel was the gospel for the day last Sunday. It...

November 10, 2019

Christianity is not a brand or a demographic

In “Slander,” from her latest collection of essays, What Are We Doing Here?, Marilynne Robinson writes...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

Elijah Cummings and Donald Trump: Can Anything Good Come Out Of Baltimore?

Another Saturday morning, another vile stream of racist and/or misogynistic tweets from the President. This...

July 21, 2019

What Dr. Seuss Has to Say About Heresy

Three days after the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT in...

June 2019

June 16, 2019

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit walk into a bar: Some thoughts about Trinity Sunday and Ordinary Time

Next to Lent, the part of the liturgical calendar that I have always found least...

May 2019

May 02, 2019

Does Everything Happen for a Reason? I don’t think so

During the last seminar of the semester in one of my classes this week, my...

April 2019

April 06, 2019

I am a Liberal Because I am a Christian

Over the past several years, I have found myself in frequent conversations with conservative Christians,...

March 2019

March 27, 2019

What Goes Down . . . Must Come Back Up

Today's Psalm invited us to go to the mountain of the Lord–which reminded me of...

March 19, 2019

God Said It. I Believe It. That Settles It.

Not long ago, I found myself involved behind the scenes in a squabble between the...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Forgiveness with No Boundaries

As we drove home from a lovely two-day celebration of our twenty-fifth anniversary several years...

February 19, 2019

God’s Works are as Good as We Make Them

The gospel reading for last Sunday was Luke's abbreviated version of the Beatitudes. It is a...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

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....

December 2018

December 06, 2018

Does the Word of God Settle Everything?

I recently had a brief, unproductive exchange in the comment section of this blog with...

November 2018

November 09, 2018

Am I My Neighbor’s Keeper?

Thanks to the caravan of refugees moving north, President Trump's choice to stoke up fears...

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...

November 04, 2018

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

A couple of months ago, Jeanne and I saw "Won't You Be My Neighbor?", the...

November 02, 2018

Spreading the Good News of Atheism

Last week, my blog post about what atheists and persons of faith can agree on...

October 2018

October 23, 2018

Assisting the Absent God: Helping to Repair a Broken World

Every once in a while someone posts a comment on my blog that reminds me...

October 18, 2018

Does a Christian Have to be Certain About Anything?

If we remembered that water takes its color from the vessel containing it, we would...

October 16, 2018

Why Rich People Can’t Get Into the Kingdom of Heaven, and other inconvenient truths

Dear Dr. Morgan: I’m writing to let you know that I won’t be in class...

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