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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 09, 2021
A quick observation today. Over the past couple of days, I have read a number...
January 02, 2021
In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word was made flesh,...
December 2020
December 01, 2020
I Don’t Know. I was Wrong. I’m Sorry. I Need Help.
A popular Christian writer got herself in trouble a while ago by suggesting on Twitter...
October 2020
October 31, 2020
It’s Halloween!–one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends many...
October 04, 2020
It’s Blessing of the Animals Sunday . . . but who is really getting the blessing?
Today is Blessing of the Animals Sunday, which this year is bittersweet for me. My...
September 2020
September 10, 2020
Silence: The Best Answer to Prayer
I, as many people of faith, have often wondered why the divine is so apparently...
September 01, 2020
How to Sound Knowledgeable About Things that You Know Nothing About
In 1980, famed science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote the following in an opinion piece for...
August 2020
August 30, 2020
So You Want to be a Blogger? Here are some things I’ve learned over the past nine years.
Nine years ago today, I started this blog. The last three and a half of...
January 2020
January 07, 2020
The Best of 2020 # 5: Leaving Jesusland . . . For Good
For the next several Thursdays, I will be reposting my top blog posts of 2020,...
January 03, 2020
On New Year’s Day, I wrote that my New Year’s resolution this year is to...
January 03, 2020
Best of 2019 #5: Is Donald Trump the “Chosen One”?
On this third day of the New Year, I am grateful for many things--including the...
November 2019
November 25, 2019
Things I Am Thankful For–what is your list?
I have a Facebook acquaintance, a fellow graduate of St. John’s College, who posts five...
November 01, 2019
Today is "All Saints Day," followed by "All Souls Day" tomorrow. I come from a hardcore...
October 2019
October 16, 2019
In the 1946 classic film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Angel Second Class Clarence Oddbody is...
September 2019
September 11, 2019
Tired of Hating People: Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11
Everyone beyond a certain age can remember clearly what they were doing eighteen years ago...
July 2019
July 25, 2019
Mary and Martha Talk about Bicycle Riding, Writing Books, and Sabbatical
The stereotype of the Type A personality has become an entrenched part of cultural lore....
July 15, 2019
I generally stay away from cranking out immediate blog posts in response to what's happening...
June 2019
June 25, 2019
Getting Old Is God’s Worst Idea
I've been thinking a lot about end of life issues lately. Really. They seem to...
May 2019
May 30, 2019
Happiness is Overrated, but Learning to Live Well is Not
It is the happy life that asks more of us than we realize we have...
March 2019
March 30, 2019
Sports Fanaticism as Spiritual Practice
Last Saturday, Jeanne was out of town for work, and I had a choice to...
January 2019
January 14, 2019
Best of 2019 #3: When Christianity Becomes an Angry and Fearful Faith
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On this New Year's Day I'm taking a final moment to look back at the...
December 2018
December 30, 2018
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May 2018
May 22, 2018
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough was the speaker at Providence College's Commencement exercises...
March 2018
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At its best, faith is the overflow of gratitude, the attempt to live as if...
March 11, 2018
One of stories that was emphasized regularly in the Baptist Sunday school of my youth...
March 06, 2018
A Few Things That I Know To Be True
Today is my birthday, so I ask for your indulgence. Our culture tends to assume...
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