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October 2025

October 23, 2025

What Teachers Can Learn From Jesus

One week from today is the official book launch of my new book A Year of...

August 2025

August 12, 2025

Playing a Bad Hand Well

Bein’ born is craps. How we live is poker. Doc Holliday Of the dozens of...

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...

January 2025

January 17, 2025

Why Mysteries are the Best Fictional Genre

I am currently two-thirds of the way through the second installment in Martin Walker's "Bruno,...

January 14, 2025

Now it Begins (Again)

In last few minutes of Franco Zefferelli's Jesus of Nazareth, Zerah pokes his head into the...

December 2023

December 10, 2023

An Outline of “Nice Work If You Can Get It”

I am currently starting the process of finding a literary agent for the teaching memoir...

October 2023

October 15, 2023

Why Do We Think that Everything Happens for a Reason?

The last text of the Spring 2021 semester--the last Covid-19 affected semester on my campus--in...

September 2023

September 28, 2023

What Would Dorothea Do?

I saw a bumper sticker once that said “So many books, so little time.” I...

January 2023

January 19, 2023

Be Like a Tree

There are two kinds of living things. They are distinguished by the strategies they have...

September 2022

September 23, 2022

On Being a Person: Remembering Hilary Mantel

I was saddened to learn this morning that Hilary Mantel, the two-time Booker Prize winning...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Organizing Books is My Charism

Last weekend, Jeanne and I took a quick trip to Greenville, South Carolina to attend...

June 2021

June 07, 2021

Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason

The last text of the semester in my “Apocalypse” colloquium was Emily St. John Mandel’s...

April 2021

April 20, 2021

What Kind of Person Do You Want to Be?

I’ve been reminded recently, in a number of random ways, of just how quickly time...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

It’s Been a Year of Wonders

One of the pleasant surprises of the new semester, now four weeks old, is that...

January 2019

January 24, 2019

Creating the World in the Classroom

Imagine a jigsaw puzzle, a thousand pieces or more. There is no box showing what...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

Why the Liberal Arts Matter

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough was the speaker at Providence College's Commencement exercises...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Wolf Hall

Christian Wiman writes that "every single expression of faith is provisional . . . because...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Je me souviens Québec

Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series has everything a lover of mysteries could want....

April 2016

April 25, 2016

The Freedom of a Tree

I read once that there are two kinds of living things—they are distinguished by the...

April 11, 2016

Forty-Seven Books

Last June as my sabbatical officially began, I decided to keep a running list of...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Book Geek Problems

Two months ago President Obama and Marilynne Robinson had a lengthy conversation, not about foreign...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

Cracked Spines

Although I suppose the whole point of being on Facebook is to be noticed, I...

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