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March 2025

March 09, 2025

A Lenten Time Change–How are you doing?

For many of us, Daylight Saving Time began this morning at 2:00 am. This year's...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

Memories of Olympics Past

It often is a surprise to those who know that I am a college professor...

February 2024

February 06, 2024

Who Am I? How to Build a Person

In one of the essays assigned for my honors colloquium on Michel de Montaigne this...

January 2024

January 02, 2024

Continuing the Task of Self-Construction in the New Year

My first post of the New Year on this blog often goes in the direction...

November 2023

November 05, 2023

Time Change Distress is a First World Problem

In the wee hours of this morning, the time changed from Daylight Saving Time to...

March 2023

March 23, 2023

Redeeming the Time

“Redeem the time,” Paul says in his letter to the church at Philippi, “because the...

October 2022

October 04, 2022

Persons, Humans, and Souls

What it means to be a person, and how that is different than being human,...

November 2021

November 07, 2021

How to Survive the Time Change (and other first world problems)

In the wee hours of this morning, the time changed from Daylight Saving Time to...

March 2021

March 13, 2021

I Like Time Changes! So sue me.

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

January 2021

January 01, 2021

It’s a New Year. Thank God.

There are few things that everyone can agree on these days, but here's one: 2020...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Am I Old Yet?

A few days before Christmas, Jeanne and I were talking with a friend of hers...

September 2020

September 15, 2020

The Fat, Relentless Ego . . . and what to do about it

This past weekend, Jeanne and I, along with our two sons and our daughter-in-law, travelled...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

Crows, Ravens, Golden Eagles, and the Holy Spirit

My childhood was filled with unusual characters, all products of my father’s fertile imagination. A...

January 2019

January 26, 2019

When it Comes to Prayer, Stop Talking and Start Relating

One of the most fascinating and troubling verses in the Jewish scriptures is from the...

January 08, 2019

A New Year’s Resolution: Dream More, and Waste Less Time

At the beginning of a new year, I often find myself thinking not so much...

November 2018

November 15, 2018

Mary, Martha, and Time Management

The stereotype of the Type A personality has become an entrenched part of cultural lore....

August 2018

August 02, 2018

The Whatevers

Although I regularly find myself immersed in things medieval with a bunch of freshmen every...

April 2018

April 08, 2018

There Was Not a Needy Person Among Them . . .

A couple of days ago, the following from Franklin Graham came across my Twitter feed:...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

The Hungry Person’s Bread–Best of “Bearings Online” #5

I occasionally write articles for Bearings Online, the online publication of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical...

December 12, 2017

It’s About Time

Time has been on my mind recently. A couple of months ago in my freshman...

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...

June 2017

June 09, 2017

The Little Red-Haired Girl

It is my blog custom on my wife Jeanne's birthday to post a reflection on...

April 2017

April 11, 2017

Flowering Trees

At the beginning of the first Holy Week, Jesus killed a fig tree for no...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

What’s Next?

As a Christmas present to each other, Jeanne and I purchased our first HD television...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

The Times They Are A-changin’

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

April 2016

April 18, 2016

Something Under Construction

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

February 2016

February 22, 2016

Bored with Thinking

Many years ago I read a paragraph in Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth that was...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

How I Know That I Am Getting Older

I recall once when I was barely thirty hearing my father describe himself as in...

June 2014

June 09, 2014

The Little Red-Haired Girl

Today is my lovely Jeanne's birthday--please join me in celebrating my favorite person's natal day!...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

Redeeming the Time

“That’s so sweet!” my student said, reading the item on my office door. “How old...

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