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November 2020

November 22, 2020

Cathedrals and Physics Labs: Saying “Hello” to God

You can either think of the creeds of the great traditions . . . as...

June 2020

June 12, 2020

God Doesn’t Own Us . . . God Loves Us

If you got to choose the manner of your death, what would your choice be?...

June 02, 2020

God and Darwin have a conversation about diversity

A number of years ago, during a public forum on my campus focused on steps...

March 2020

March 14, 2020

Jesus’ Advice Concerning the Coronavirus: Don’t Be Afraid of Tomorrow

If there ever was a time when Jesus’ suggestion that we should “not worry about...

March 07, 2020

The time, it is a-changin’

For many of us, Daylight Saving Time begins tomorrow at 2:00 am. That's "spring forward,"...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

Surviving the Time Change, and other first world problems . . .

I’m going out on a limb here—way out. I like time changes. This year Daylight...

October 2019

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...

March 2019

March 24, 2019

Oysters, Ballerinas, and a Reminder that No One Owns God

There are several contemporary writers on spiritual issues and matters of faith whose work I...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

Calling God Back to the Mountain

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are they not both...

September 09, 2018

Right-Brain Faith in a Left-Brain World

At age thirty-seven, Harvard trained brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor woke up one morning with...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

How Do I Get There?–A Reflection for Good Shepherd Sunday

Tomorrow is "Good Shepherd Sunday," including the 23rd Psalm--a text so familiar that it is...

April 12, 2018

Just the Facts

I drove past a billboard not long ago that raised my blood pressure a bit....

April 03, 2018

God and Darwin walk into a bar . . .

A Benedictine monk once told me that Darwin has taught us more about God than...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Insufficient Evidence

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and...

January 25, 2018

The Divine Uncertainty Principle

Fifteen or more years ago my professional writing and research interests were largely focused on...

January 23, 2018

Fact or Opinion?

So moral relativism makes us more corrupt, but it also keeps us open-minded; moral objectivism...

January 18, 2018

What Do You Want?

Anyone who reads this blog regularly or even occasionally knows that I love movies. Solidly...

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Another Book That May Change Your Life

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence....

July 2017

July 25, 2017

Step to the Right: Practicing Right Brain Faith in a Left Brain World

After a major stroke, neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor lost function in her left brain. But...

July 14, 2017

The Western Tradition in Eighteen Windows

Your assignment is to name the eighteen most important figures in the Western liberal arts...

July 11, 2017

The Virtues of Atheism

A fresh look at my world without God-tinted lenses reveals that suffering and violence are...

March 2017

March 06, 2017

Nature and Nature’s God

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are they not both...

January 2017

January 04, 2017

The Sun and the Other Stars

On the west side of the stone entryway to the beautiful humanities center on my...

November 2016

November 05, 2016

Canine Ethics

Over the years I have developed dozens of strategies for getting students to participate in...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Something Rather Than Nothing

One of the most reliable ways to deaden a lively conversation in class is to...

September 2016

September 02, 2016

You Are Free, Therefore Choose

Each of us can point to a time (or several times) in our past when...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

Something Under Construction

We never see the world exactly as it is because we are how the world...

March 2016

March 20, 2016

Blessed Is He Who Comes

Rodney Delasanta was one of best teachers and colleagues I ever had the privilege of...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

There are More Things In Heaven and Earth . . .

Not long ago I received the following email out of the blue: “My name is ___ and...

June 22, 2015

When Logic Fails

My novel of the week is Rebecca Goldstein’s The Mind-Body Problem. I first encountered Goldstein...

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