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2019-09-12T15:05:21-04:00

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Reason Touched By Grace: Getting Faith and Intellect on the Same Page

Last updated on: September 12, 2019 at 3:05 pm By Vance Morgan

A few days ago, Pete Buttigeig, mayor of South Bend and candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, was interviewed on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” One of the many things that has made Mayor Pete an unusual candidate is his willingness to talk openly about how his Christian faith has shaped him, both as a public servant and as a person. In answer to Joe Scarborough’s wondering whether Buttigeig believed that Jesus Christ was his “Lord and personal Savior,” Mayor Pete... Read more

2019-09-05T06:29:52-04:00

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Donald Trump, Pardons, and Forgiveness

Last updated on: September 5, 2019 at 6:29 am By Vance Morgan

Pardons are in the news, particularly Presidential pardons. Presidential pardons are nothing new, and most people apparently believe that the President’s power to pardon is unlimited. Last week, the Washington Post reported that President Trump instructed aides to “aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules,” as part of an apparent effort to get them to build his border wall in time for reelection. Trump has reportedly offered pardons when aides object that such directives are illegal. Trump angrily called... Read more

2019-08-30T18:48:39-04:00

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What Lies About God Do You Believe?

Last updated on: August 30, 2019 at 6:48 pm By Vance Morgan

In Lies We Believe Abut God, Wm. Paul Young (author of The Shack) tells the story of how one of his friends reacted to his speculation that we have the opportunity to choose God even after physical death (just one of many interesting non-orthodox ideas in this fascinating book). His friend’s viscerally negative response let Young know that he “had entered waters that were considered sacred. My intention made no difference. I had stepped on a land mine . . . [Later]... Read more

2019-08-30T11:18:47-04:00

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Jesus and the Compassionate Capitalist: A Reflection for Labor Day

Last updated on: August 30, 2019 at 11:18 am By Vance Morgan

There are a couple of sayings attributed to Jesus that Christians often use when attempting to show that following Jesus and a commitment to capitalism are compatible with each other–I’ve encountered each of them over the past few days. In a Facebook thread, a person noted that since Jesus said that “God helps those who helps themselves,” clearly he would endorse the capitalist work ethic of competition and self-promotion. Then yesterday on Twitter someone quoted Jesus as saying that “If... Read more

2019-08-29T06:44:43-04:00

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The Life of a College Professor: Nice Work if You Can Get It

Last updated on: August 29, 2019 at 6:44 am By Vance Morgan

It’s the first week of the new academic year, which is always a good time to reflect on what I am privileged to do for a living. A few years ago, I read a Huffington Post article summarizing the results of what a bunch of anthropologists found out concerning the daily work habits of university faculty. What Do Professors Do All Day? After spending two weeks with a non-random sample of sixteen faculty of different ranks at Boise State University, the researchers found... Read more

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2019-08-26T20:57:59-04:00

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What is the Best Evidence that God is Real?

Last updated on: August 26, 2019 at 8:57 pm By Vance Morgan

In her wonderful memoir Take This Bread, Sara Miles tells us of a conversation she had with a fellow volunteer as they distributed food at their church’s food pantry one Friday morning. Both Sara and Steve were lay eucharistic ministers who brought the chalice to parishioners on Sunday morning; they noted the similarities between handing out food on Fridays and their activities at the altar on Sunday, including the importance of looking past the ritual and making eye contact with each... Read more

2019-08-25T13:01:20-04:00

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Remembering One of my Best Friends (and celebrating seven years of blogging)

Last updated on: August 25, 2019 at 1:01 pm By Vance Morgan

This week marks seven years since I, with trepidation, misgivings and a certain amount of reluctance, started this blog (I’ve been blogging on Patheos for the past two-and-a-half of those years). It’s been a ride, one that has been on a serious upswing during this calendar year. This month is already by far the best single month in the blog’s history, the latest in a series of consecutive record breaking months. My second book rooted in this blog will be... Read more

2019-08-21T18:20:20-04:00

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Is Donald Trump “The Chosen One”?

Last updated on: August 21, 2019 at 6:20 pm By Vance Morgan

So that just happened. In a wide-ranging “conversation” with reporters on the White House lawn yesterday, Donald Trump looked toward the sky and said “I am the chosen one.” Really. Context is important, of course. Trump was talking about trade wars with China, something that he claimed previous Presidents dropped the ball on. Since he believes he is not dropping the ball, he is apparently the “chosen one” to get this done. But this is not the first time President... Read more

2019-08-19T22:54:39-04:00

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Will All Things Be Well?

Last updated on: August 19, 2019 at 10:54 pm By Vance Morgan

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. I don’t know when I first heard or read this well-known saying; it regularly pops up in various places. A teaching colleague commented on it in her lecture a few semesters ago on Julian of Norwich, the medieval Christian mystic to whom the saying is attributed. T. S. Eliot includes it in “Little Gidding,” the last poem in Four Quartets. My friend Marsue says... Read more

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2019-08-14T15:33:50-04:00

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Finding the Light

Last updated on: August 14, 2019 at 3:33 pm By Vance Morgan

We are not simply made by God—we are made of God Julian of Norwich Toward the end of a transformative four-month sabbatical in the spring of 2009, I heard a homily given by a Benedictine monk at the abbey where I had been spending a couple of hours a day reading psalms and praying with the monks for weeks. I don’t remember anything about the homily except this quotation from Saint Catherine of Genoa: My deepest me is God. Without exaggeration, any evidence of positive internal... Read more

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