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March 2025

March 14, 2025

A Return to the Problem of Evil–Part One

This week is Spring Break at my college--a week I am using to catch up...

March 02, 2025

When God Is Silent: N.T. Wright on Lament and Faith

When the Spirit Groans In a recent episode of one of my favorite podcasts, "Everything...

December 2024

December 29, 2024

First Sunday after Christmas: In the Beginning was the Word

The gospel reading in all three liturgical years for the First Sunday after Christmas is...

December 15, 2024

Why Faith Can’t Avoid Being Political

I've been steering away from politics here ever since last month's election and intend to...

October 2024

October 25, 2024

Is it Strange that I Love God?

One of the authors mentioned frequently by participants at Theology Beer Camp last weekend was...

October 22, 2024

A Report from Theology Beer Camp

This past weekend I was at a conference in Denver called "Theology Beer Camp." If...

October 01, 2024

Living the Social Gospel

Next week in the interdisciplinary program I teach in will be "Social Gospel" week. Students...

August 2024

August 27, 2024

You have Permission to be Joyful

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:...

April 2024

April 02, 2024

The Apocalypse During Apocalyptic Times

It is interesting, perhaps fitting, that the first class in my team-taught "Apocalypse: colloquium after...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

God Finds Us to be Infinitely Interesting

April is going to be Marilynne Robinson month for me. In the team taught interdisciplinary...

February 2024

February 29, 2024

Being a Person of Faith in Challenging Times

This has been a challenging week in class, not because of my students but because...

January 2024

January 11, 2024

A Theology of the Compost Pile

In his 2014 book The Bible Tells Me So . . .” and The Sin...

November 2023

November 26, 2023

The Difference Between Goats and GOATs

The last Sunday before Advent and the beginning of a new liturgical calendar year is...

November 14, 2023

What to Do When Your Conception of God Does Not Line Up with Reality

Last Thursday I posted my second recent essay revisiting the problem of evil, arguing that...

November 12, 2023

The Cost of Doing Evolutionary Business–God and Darwin have a conversation

Regular readers of this blog know that I am currently thinking through an old issue--the...

October 2023

October 07, 2023

Your Faith is Not Just About You

The Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus is the lectionary reading from the Jewish...

September 2023

September 06, 2023

What Does the Bible Say About . . . ?

In an interview with CNN a few years ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said something that...

June 2023

June 15, 2023

Twenty Years Ago, I Spent Father’s Day in Cuba

Twenty years ago I spent Father's Day in Cuba, part of a trip that changed...

April 2023

April 30, 2023

A Bunch of Communists in the Book of Acts

I have been accused frequently over the years by commenters on my blog and on...

March 2023

March 12, 2023

How to Educate a Story-Telling Animal

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

March 02, 2023

Getting Back to the Basics

This coming Sunday's gospel gets us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to...

January 2023

January 12, 2023

What Compost Piles Teach Us About Faith

Over the past year or so I have read several books by Peter Enns, a...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Living the Social Gospel: Your faith is not just about you

In the interdisiplinary and team-taught honors course I am teaching in this academic year, we...

September 2022

September 07, 2022

What Does the Bible Say about _____________?

In an interview with CNN a few years ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said something that...

July 2022

July 23, 2022

Negotiating with God

I have the privilege of giving the sermon today at Trinity Episcopal Church in Pawtuxet,...

July 09, 2022

What They Don’t Tell Us About Wisdom–Part Two

A couple of weeks ago I posted an essay called “What They Don’t Tell Us...

June 2022

June 07, 2022

How Should a Normal Person Approach the Bible?

I recently came across a great podcast called “The Bible for Normal People,” hosted by...

May 2022

May 03, 2022

The Gospel According to Compost

Alas, and did my Savior bleed, and did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that...

April 2022

April 19, 2022

A Physical Body Plus Something More

The central theme of my ethics class last fall was human dignity. Through short stories,...

April 09, 2022

I’ll Be Jesus: A Palm Sunday Reflection

What is bothering me incessantly is the question of what Christianity really is, or indeed...

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