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April 2026

April 30, 2026

Advice that Saint Francis Never Gave

There is a saying attributed to Saint Francis that I have heard frequently over more...

April 16, 2026

God is Change

All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting...

April 01, 2026

Making the Truth Laugh: An April Fools Day Reflection

I know that today is Wednesday in Holy Week, but it is also April Fools...

February 2026

February 05, 2026

What Does the Lord Require of You?

Over the past months, I have become more and more familiar with how Lutherans do...

February 01, 2026

The Beatitudes: A Call to Change the World

It is a scene so familiar in our imaginations that it has become iconic. On...

December 2025

December 28, 2025

The Chocolate Bible

Today's gospel reading is the the beautifully poetic first verses of John's gospel, staring with...

October 2025

October 05, 2025

He Who Increases Knowledge Increases Sorrow

Last week I posted an essay called “In Much Wisdom There is Much Grief,” inspired...

September 2025

September 21, 2025

What If I’m Wrong?

Starting college at age eighteen, three thousand miles away from home, might have been daunting...

August 2025

August 07, 2025

Peeking into the Mind of God

I once led a seminar with a number of colleagues from the Honors Program as...

June 2025

June 25, 2025

The Most Important and Influential Literary Character

Some time ago I read the first few pages of Greg Epstein’s Good without God....

June 19, 2025

There Is No One But Us

As I continue to work through my next book project that has been on the...

June 03, 2025

The Terrain of the Sacred

In her spiritual memoir Still, Lauren Winner tells the story of a conversation between poet...

May 2025

May 27, 2025

What Mitch Albom Taught Me About the Gospels

Truth be Told A week or so ago Jeanne needed to go to a department...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Being a Philosopher and a Christian

There may be no need to reconcile all one’s beliefs with all one’s other beliefs—no...

April 08, 2025

How Facts and Faith Can Work Together

I am always encouraged when I find that various topics and issues that I obsess...

March 2025

March 21, 2025

Sports Fanaticism and the Life of Faith

Today is day two of the four best sports days of the year. The first...

September 2024

September 27, 2024

Why We Believe Things That Aren’t True

Over the years that I have been writing this blog, those who describe themselves as...

September 20, 2024

Why Being Uncomfortable is a Good Thing

A new podcast that I've been enjoying recently is Ali Velshi's "Banned Book Club"--I highly...

September 15, 2024

Comfort is vastly overrated

In the interdisciplinary, team-taught course I am participating in this semester, we spent our second...

August 2024

August 11, 2024

Speaking the Truth in Love

During my youth and adolescence, my father was the president and primary fundraiser for a...

July 2024

July 22, 2024

When a Word is a Complete Sentence

All of us live in a world filled with words. For academics, words are the...

July 21, 2024

Okay, fine. I’m a heretic.

I've spent significant time over the past fourteen or fifteen months immersed in the Bible....

July 19, 2024

On its way to the publisher!

On Monday I will be sending the final manuscript of A Year of Faith and Philosophy:...

June 2024

June 06, 2024

Speaking the Truth in a Culture of Lies

As I continue to put my new book, A Year of Faith and Philosophy: Exploring Spiritual...

June 02, 2024

We are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each...

May 2024

May 31, 2024

You Always Have the Poor

As I work through my book under contract getting it into shape for the editor...

May 23, 2024

Consider the Lilies . . .

I am working my way through my book A Year of Faith and Philosophy making revisions,...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

The Word is a Person

In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word was made flesh,...

April 15, 2024

Jesus Wants You to Pay Your Taxes and to Like It

Today is tax day. As the familiar saying goes, just like death taxes are inevitable....

March 2024

March 14, 2024

Eating Your Words. Literally.

Truth isn’t sympathetic to our need for certainty or stability. Jared Enns, “The Bible for...

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