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2019-02-01T06:50:50-04:00

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The Super Bowl and the F-Word

Last updated on: February 1, 2019 at 6:50 am By Vance Morgan

The Super Bowl is upon us! As an avid Patriots fan, I feel perfectly comfortable in saying that I know the Patriots will defeat the Rams. But do I really know that? I had this conversation with a bunch of students this past week. There’s nothing like unexpectedly dropping an f-bomb on a bunch of students. But it’s even better when one of them does it. I teach at a Catholic college, so one would think that the students would be... Read more

2019-01-30T14:58:44-04:00

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Sacred Spaces and Dunkin Donuts

Last updated on: January 30, 2019 at 2:58 pm By Vance Morgan

I currently am working my way slowly through Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography of Leonardo da Vinci. One of the many fascinating things about Leonardo is that he does not fit the model of a solitary and tortured genius. So far, at least (I’ve got him up to his middle thirties), Leonardo appears to have been an extroverted “people person” who loved bouncing ideas off other creative people, the sorts of folks he surrounded himself with in his studio and travelling... Read more

2019-01-29T08:45:03-04:00

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“You are the Man”: Speaking Truth to Power

Last updated on: January 29, 2019 at 8:45 am By Vance Morgan

Not long ago, my wife Jeanne decided to audit a graduate theology course on campus taught by a good friend who is an emeritus professor of theology. The course was “The Prophetic Faith,” described as a study of “the prophetic writings of Ancient Israel, examining both their original message and their relevance for contemporary readers.” After looking over the syllabus, I thought it would be fun to sit in on this class as well. I’m glad I did, at least for a... Read more

2019-01-27T09:54:11-04:00

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When it Comes to Prayer, Stop Talking and Start Relating

Last updated on: January 27, 2019 at 9:54 am By Vance Morgan

One of the most fascinating and troubling verses in the Jewish scriptures is from the book of Proverbs: It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, and the glory of kings to search it out. I, as many people of faith, have often wondered why the divine is so apparently unavailable, so frequently silent. I, as many people of faith, have often assumed that this silence is my fault—especially since various people in my life since my youth... Read more

2019-01-22T09:55:14-04:00

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Creating the World in the Classroom

Last updated on: January 22, 2019 at 9:55 am By Vance Morgan

Imagine a jigsaw puzzle, a thousand pieces or more. There is no box showing what the completed puzzle will look like. But that’s okay, because this is an unusual puzzle. The various pieces can fit together in many different ways, producing any number of possible finished pictures. The puzzle assembler has to decide, early on in the process, what she or he wants the finished product to look like; each subsequent choice about which pieces to join together is guided... Read more

2019-01-22T10:50:45-04:00

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America is not a Christian Nation . . . and That’s a Good Thing

Last updated on: January 22, 2019 at 10:50 am By Vance Morgan

I recently found out from the editors of Bearings Online, an online magazine that I contribute to regularly, that one of my essays from last summer was their fourth most popular article of 2018. Yay! I wrote it around Independence Day last year, but on this day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the topic continues to be relevant . . . Is America a Christian Nation? Should it Be? Read more

2019-01-20T09:31:14-04:00

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I am Deeply Offended that Mike Pence is Deeply Offended

Last updated on: January 20, 2019 at 9:31 am By Vance Morgan

There are so many things that Vice President Mike Pence could be deeply offended by. That the man who talked him into running on his ticket in 2016 has turned out to be the worst President, hands down, in the history of this country. Mike Pence could be deeply offended that he is impotent to do anything about the government shutdown that is driving thousands of government employees to food pantries just to get enough food into their families and... Read more

2019-01-17T12:04:03-04:00

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Know Your Bible, and Know Your Greek Mythology

Last updated on: January 17, 2019 at 12:04 pm By Vance Morgan

During summer orientation for freshmen, I often help the director of the Honors Program on my campus with orientation for the incoming Honors freshmen. At the heart of my college’s core curriculum is the Development of Western Civilization (DWC) Program, a twenty-credit required interdisciplinary course that all students, regardless of their major, take over the first four semesters of their time on campus. It’s an ambitious program that is team taught by faculty from the philosophy, theology, history, and literature... Read more

2019-01-15T11:58:56-04:00

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We Have Met the Nazis, and They are Us

Last updated on: January 15, 2019 at 11:58 am By Vance Morgan

We ought not to hide from ourselves that Nazi Germany is a mirror for all of us. What looks to us so hideous is our own features, but magnified. Simone Weil in 1937 Yesterday was the Spring 2019 semester’s first day of classes on my campus. Tomorrow will be the first meeting of one of my favorite courses, an interdisciplinary colloquium that I team-teach with a colleague from the history department: “‘Love Never Fails’: Grace, Truth, and Freedom in the Nazi... Read more

2019-12-17T20:47:46-04:00

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Best of 2019 #3: When Christianity Becomes an Angry and Fearful Faith

Last updated on: December 17, 2019 at 8:47 pm By Vance Morgan

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