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June 2018

June 28, 2018

Does Everything Work Together for Good?

Jeanne and I recently had the opportunity to see a local community theater’s production of...

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 10, 2018

The Crooked Timber of Faith

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant...

May 03, 2018

One Nation, Under God?

I was invited earlier this week by an online publication that I write for occasionally...

May 01, 2018

Taking a Moral Holiday

So here we are, a year and a half since Donald Trump was elected President....

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Moral Apocalypse

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shakespeare, King Lear This week,...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

A Holy Week Reflection: Why Doctrine and Faith Don’t Mix

Holy Week is upon us once again—as good a time as any to step back...

March 22, 2018

Morality By The Skin Of Your Teeth

Any caring human being asks the question What is the right thing to do? on...

March 15, 2018

The Christian Faith In a Nutshell

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

March 01, 2018

A More Plausible God

In a couple of weeks, we will be starting a unit in my General Ethics...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

Invading the Impossible

A few months ago, the gospel reading from Luke prompted our rector and my friend...

February 04, 2018

Keeping Hope Alive

The theme of a philosophy conference that I attended a couple of years ago was...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

The Divine Uncertainty Principle

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

January 12, 2018

What Are You Reading?

Over the holiday season my house always welcomes at least a half dozen new books...

November 2017

November 19, 2017

Pragmatic Christianity: Why Doctrine Often Does Not Matter

It’s always an awkward situation, no matter how many times it has happened in my...

October 2017

October 24, 2017

Ordinary Miracles

Every year, between Pentecost and the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the lectionary takes us through week...

September 2017

September 12, 2017

Soul and Body

This semester I have the privilege of teaching Philosophy of Knowledge, a favorite course that for...

September 03, 2017

Are You More Christian Than I Am?

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

August 2017

August 22, 2017

How I can be a Philosopher and a Christian at the same time

There is a big difference between "Christendom" (an institution) and "Christianity" (a way of life)--it...

August 20, 2017

What if . . . we stopped asking “What If”?

There are few pastimes more popular than playing “What If?” It’s a favorite theme, for...

August 15, 2017

What People of Faith Share in Common with Atheists

The more I realize why my faith is important to me, the more I realize...

August 08, 2017

Waiting for the Apocalypse

More than any analysis or punditry over the past eight months, rereading the Book of...

August 01, 2017

Am I an Impostor? Do I Have Any Real Significance?

As everyone else I know, I often suffer from impostor's syndrome and feelings of insignificance....

July 2017

July 14, 2017

The Western Tradition in Eighteen Windows

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

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Let Us Cultivate our Garden

What is one to do when what one professes to believe has become, as Macbeth...

June 23, 2017

Spiritual Plagiarism

God often operates according to entirely different rules than those to which we are accustomed....

June 16, 2017

The Theology of Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman believes that the conflict between good and evil is a zero sum game,...

June 12, 2017

Carbonated Holiness

Anne Lamott defines laughter as Carbonated Holiness. These days, we could use a lot more...

June 03, 2017

The Confusion of Babel and the Clarity of Pentecost

The voices of spirituality, religion, secularism, materialism, power, and greed often are speaking languages so...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

All Dogs Go To Heaven

Do dogs go to heaven? Some people turn this into a convoluted theological debate--Do dogs...

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