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July 28, 2019
Robert Mueller, “Hamilton,” and Taking Our Country Back
As millions of other Americans, I awoke last Wednesday intending to binge watch the Mueller...
July 03, 2019
I think it’s time for us to get a little bit more uncompromising in our...
June 2019
June 23, 2019
Do You Want To Be Free? Face Your Demons
The lectionary readings for today include two fascinating texts from Scripture: Elijah collapsed under a...
June 18, 2019
If Norway Speaks, Donald Trump Will Listen—but probably not to this
Norway is in the news—last week President Trump mentioned Norway as an example of a...
June 06, 2019
The Greatest Task of All is to Live
For the past several years my upper-division (juniors and seniors) classes have included an ongoing...
June 03, 2019
When Christianity Becomes an Angry and Fearful Faith
At its best, faith is the overflow of gratitude, the attempt to live as if...
May 2019
May 28, 2019
At the end of each academic year, I tend to reflect back on the past...
May 26, 2019
Anyone who reads this blog regularly or even occasionally knows that I love movies. Solidly...
May 23, 2019
Every religion which does not confirm that God is hidden is not true. Blaise Pascal One...
May 21, 2019
Rise, Kill, and Eat: A Story About Learning to See Things Differently
Iris Murdoch was one of the philosophers whose work was front and center in my...
May 19, 2019
Today is my college's Commencement Day. I've been to more than thirty college graduation events,...
May 17, 2019
Scottish Sheep are Waterproof, and other takeaways from Good Shepherd Sunday
One of my prized possessions, purchased when Jeanne and I on vacation last June in...
April 2019
April 21, 2019
Now I See You: An Easter Reflection
Easter Sunday--the most triumphant day on the Christian liturgical calendar. According to New Testament scholar...
April 05, 2019
From Living Stones to Spiritual Houses
The Bible is filled with rocks. The patriarchs pile rocks up every time they want...
March 2019
March 26, 2019
Complicated Truths and the Challenge of Being Good
Once many years ago, a couple I was close friends with was having marital problems....
March 03, 2019
Our Wishes Are Not God’s Primary Concern
Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In his...
February 2019
February 17, 2019
I recently read the following observations: They weren’t such bad fellows. He had mixed with...
February 02, 2019
The Super Bowl is upon us! As an avid Patriots fan, I feel perfectly comfortable...
January 2019
January 29, 2019
“You are the Man”: Speaking Truth to Power
Not long ago, my wife Jeanne decided to audit a graduate theology course on campus...
December 2018
December 24, 2018
Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...
December 13, 2018
Did Jesus Ever Say “I’m Sorry”?
A popular Christian writer got herself in trouble not long ago by suggesting on Twitter...
December 11, 2018
I was raised in a version of Christianity that had no sense of the liturgical...
November 2018
November 29, 2018
Trailing Clouds of Glory, We Come From God
As we approach the Advent and Christmas seasons, I am in a forward-looking and hopeful...
November 25, 2018
Does Christianity Solve the Problem of Evil? (spoiler alert: no, it doesn’t)
In the six-plus years that I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve occasionally been asked what...
November 21, 2018
Is My Ignorance Worth as Much as Your Knowledge?
In early 1980, Isaac Asimov wrote something in a Newsweek article that has been making the rounds on...
November 11, 2018
Teach Us to Care and Not to Care
I began Election Day last Tuesday at the gym, riding the stationary bike for an...
September 2018
September 18, 2018
Is it THE truth, or is it MY truth?
Ian McEwan's The Children Act is the story of Fiona Maye, an experienced and highly respected family...
August 2018
August 19, 2018
In Lies We Believe Abut God, Wm. Paul Young (author of The Shack) tells the...
July 2018
July 10, 2018
God’s Works Are as Good as We Make Them
God would have us know that we must live as people who manage our lives...
July 08, 2018
God is Just a Story (and so are we)
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