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March 07, 2026

What Biblical Wells Teach Us About the Unpredictable Divine

Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In...

February 2026

February 11, 2026

The National Prayer Breakfast Gets an Unexpected Visitor

The annual National Prayer Breakfast happened last week. I don't know what happened or what...

December 2025

December 28, 2025

The Chocolate Bible

Today's gospel reading is the the beautifully poetic first verses of John's gospel, staring with...

November 2025

November 13, 2025

The Wells of Salvation

Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 The...

November 09, 2025

One Wife for Seven Brothers

It's football season! Here's a conversation overheard as a bunch of guys at a sports...

September 2025

September 21, 2025

What If I’m Wrong?

Starting college at age eighteen, three thousand miles away from home, might have been daunting...

May 2025

May 27, 2025

What Mitch Albom Taught Me About the Gospels

Truth be Told A week or so ago Jeanne needed to go to a department...

April 2025

April 11, 2025

The Bible and Penguins

In my American Philosophy class, a class that I am enjoying greatly because I have...

February 2025

February 21, 2025

Joseph, Peter, and Radical Forgiveness

The reading from the Jewish scriptures for this coming Sunday is from Genesis 45 when...

November 2024

November 22, 2024

Ordinay Time is coming to an end . . .

First, some big news! I received the page proofs of A Year of Faith and...

November 15, 2024

Christianity and Power

So how are you doing ten days after the election? In the wee hours of...

October 2024

October 13, 2024

Hard Sayings and Inconvenient Truths

I will be receiving the copyedited version of my book A Year of Faith and Philosophy...

August 2024

August 11, 2024

Speaking the Truth in Love

During my youth and adolescence, my father was the president and primary fundraiser for a...

July 2024

July 27, 2024

Jesus Caters a Very Large Picnic

Today's gospel is the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand, one of the few...

July 16, 2024

You might be a Bible-worshipper if . . .

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of “The Chosen,”...

May 2024

May 04, 2024

Weaponizing the Bible

The final meeting of my honors colloquium on Michel de Montaigne was last Thursday. It...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

The Word is a Person

In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word was made flesh,...

March 2024

March 14, 2024

Eating Your Words. Literally.

Truth isn’t sympathetic to our need for certainty or stability. Jared Enns, “The Bible for...

October 2023

October 24, 2023

My Relationship with the Word of God

My two sabbatical book projects have, without my explicitly planning it, turned out to be...

September 2023

September 06, 2023

What Does the Bible Say About . . . ?

In an interview with CNN a few years ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said something that...

August 2023

August 20, 2023

Even the Best of Us has Bad Days

A conversation heard behind the scenes: Dude! Did you see what just happened?? How could...

August 03, 2023

Did He Walk On the Water or Didn’t He?

The summer Sunday gospel readings annually are full of Jesus' greatest hits, including feeding the...

July 2023

July 29, 2023

Jesus Would Have Driven Socrates Crazy

When we first moved to Rhode Island in the middle 1990s for my new teaching...

April 2023

April 30, 2023

A Bunch of Communists in the Book of Acts

I have been accused frequently over the years by commenters on my blog and on...

February 2023

February 07, 2023

The Bible is Made of Chocolate

Truth isn’t sympathetic to our need for certainty or stability. Jared Enns, “The Bible for...

January 2023

January 22, 2023

When the Well Runs Dry

Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In...

November 2022

November 06, 2022

One Wife for Seven Brothers: A Strange Story with an Important Lesson

A conversation overheard as a bunch of guys at a sports bar wait for the...

January 2022

January 02, 2022

In the Beginning was the Word

In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word was made flesh,...

July 2021

July 24, 2021

When Jesus Takes a Walk

The summer Sunday gospel readings annually are full of Jesus' greatest hits--this year is no...

June 2021

June 10, 2021

What Do You Do When the Well Runs Dry?

Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In...

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