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2019-07-01T13:49:57-04:00

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Compromise is Patriotic

Last updated on: July 1, 2019 at 1:49 pm By Vance Morgan

I think it’s time for us to get a little bit more uncompromising in our defense of compromise. Jonathan Rauch One of the many benefits of getting up early on Sunday morning in order to make the 8:00 service at church is that I can catch the last fifteen minutes of Krista Tippett’s radio program “On Being” as I drive. I first became aware of Krista several years ago when I was on sabbatical at the ecumenical institute in Minnesota where she... Read more

2019-07-02T06:48:23-04:00

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Superhero Theology

Last updated on: July 2, 2019 at 6:48 am By Vance Morgan

I think that a lot of people stop taking their birthdays seriously after a certain age—perhaps fifty. Jeanne and I, however, still expect to be the center of attention on our birthdays, and also expect the spouse who is not having the birthday to plan a few surprises or two. For Jeanne’s birthday two summers ago, we celebrated with a twenty-mile bike ride to the Audubon Society’s environmental education center, a surprise dinner with close friends at a restaurant on... Read more

2019-06-27T23:52:46-04:00

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It’s My Life, and I’ll Die When I Want To

Last updated on: June 27, 2019 at 11:52 pm By Vance Morgan

If you got to choose the manner of your death, what would your choice be? In his Essais, Michel de Montaigne encourages his readers to take ownership of the freedom each of us has concerning our demise: Why do you complain of this world? It does not hold you: if you live in pain, your cowardice is the cause; to die all that is needed is the will . . . The most voluntary death is the fairest . .... Read more

2019-06-26T19:38:34-04:00

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What Happens After You Die Isn’t That Important

Last updated on: June 26, 2019 at 7:38 pm By Vance Morgan

A conversation involving a bunch of guys at a sports bar waiting for the big game to begin: “Dude, I’ve got one for you. There are these seven brothers named Aaron, Bill, Carl, Dave, Eric, Fred and George. Aaron’s the oldest one and he marries his high school girlfriend Paula. But he dies and Bill marries Paula because he thinks it’s the right thing to do.” “That’s kind of weird. Is Paula hot?” “What does that matter? “If I was... Read more

2019-06-25T06:41:15-04:00

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Getting Old Is God’s Worst Idea

Last updated on: June 25, 2019 at 6:41 am By Vance Morgan

I’ve been thinking a lot about end of life issues lately. Really. They seem to be showing up everywhere–on the television show we are currently binge-watching, in my readings in the Psalms, in Montaigne’s Essais that I am reading through this summer, in a lead article in the Atlantic that just came in the mail, in a novel I am rereading that will be the first assignment in my ethics class in the fall. You know who never talks about end of... Read more

2019-06-22T13:49:21-04:00

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Do You Want To Be Free? Face Your Demons

Last updated on: June 22, 2019 at 1:49 pm By Vance Morgan

The lectionary readings for today include two fascinating texts from Scripture: Elijah collapsed under a broom tree in First Kings, and a bunch of demons cast into a herd of pigs in Luke’s gospel. Lucky me: I’m giving the sermon today at the Episcopal church I attend, then leading a monthly discussion group afterwards! Here’s what I’ll be saying: This year is the centenary of the birth of Iris Murdoch. Her life bookended the twentieth century (she died after several... Read more

2019-06-20T06:53:33-04:00

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Faith By the Light of the Moon

Last updated on: June 20, 2019 at 6:53 am By Vance Morgan

Broken windows and empty hallways, a pale dead moon and a sky streaked with gray. Human kindness is overflowing, and I think it’s going to rain today. Randy Newman Jeanne and I are television binge-watchers. Long gone are the bad old days when you had to wait a week for each new episode of a favorite series, or wait by the mailbox for the next disc to come from Netflix or Blockbuster (remember them?). Now we can binge-watch a whole season... Read more

2019-06-18T07:16:22-04:00

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If Norway Speaks, Donald Trump Will Listen—but probably not to this

Last updated on: June 18, 2019 at 7:16 am By Vance Morgan

Norway is in the news—last week President Trump mentioned Norway as an example of a country he would listen to if they claimed to have dirt to offer on one of his opponents, and a Norwegian-owned freighter was one of two freighters (the other was Japanese) attacked in the Persian Gulf. Trump seems to have Norway on his mind on random occasions; shortly after he became President, he was reported to have complained about immigrants always coming from “shithole” countries... Read more

2019-06-16T07:49:49-04:00

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The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit walk into a bar: Some thoughts about Trinity Sunday and Ordinary Time

Last updated on: June 16, 2019 at 7:49 am By Vance Morgan

Next to Lent, the part of the liturgical calendar that I have always found least attractive is the stretch of endless weeks in green from Pentecost to the Sunday after Thanksgiving: Ordinary Time. Catholics and Episcopalians (as well as many other Christian denominations) follow the same liturgical calendar and readings—I recall that, when on sabbatical a decade ago, a fellow resident scholar at the ecumenical institute where I was spending four months, who happened to be Catholic, told me that... Read more

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2019-06-13T11:27:37-04:00

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What My Father Taught Me About Reading and Belief

Last updated on: June 13, 2019 at 11:27 am By Vance Morgan

One of the most important tasks that an author has to face when a book is in the late stages of the publication process is the dedication. This usually happens late in the process, when your editor is hard at work making your prose more readable, the marketing people are asking you to fill out forms that include contact information for acquaintances and colleagues who might not be too embarrassed to write a blurb, and you have finally realized that... Read more

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