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July 02, 2023

Can We Negotiate With God?

Today's reading from the Jewish scriptures is Genesis 22, the well-known and infamous story of...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

The Burden of Light

Teaching for thirty years in an interdisciplinary program with colleagues from a multitude of disciplines...

June 27, 2023

Why Don’t You Just Admit that You’re a Heretic?

One of my favorite passages from the Gospels is when Jesus is asked “Which is...

June 24, 2023

How to Be the Resurrection

Lead on King Eternal, the day of march has come Henceforth in fields of conquest Thy...

June 22, 2023

How to Drink Coffee Like a Stoic

If you are fond of a cup, say “I am fond of a cup!” For...

June 20, 2023

Loving Your Life

I have a good friend and teaching colleague who told me the other day that...

June 15, 2023

Twenty Years Ago, I Spent Father’s Day in Cuba

Twenty years ago I spent Father's Day in Cuba, part of a trip that changed...

June 13, 2023

Walking Away from Jesusland

In our never-ending search for excellent police dramas, Jeanne and I watched the first season...

June 08, 2023

Of Roofs, Vineyards, and the Kingdom of Heaven

Three summers ago, after three delays (one our fault, two their fault), our house got...

June 06, 2023

Ordinary Lives in Ordinary Time

So here we are in Ordinary Time, the longest liturgical season that will stretch until...

May 2023

May 29, 2023

What Does Christian Patriotism Look Like?

Memorial Day is a day for solemn remembrance. Memorial Day is also a day when...

May 25, 2023

Why Being a Stoner is a Plus in the LIfe of Faith

One of my two sabbatical book projects is tentatively titled The Freelance Christian's Guide to the...

May 23, 2023

Where I have Been and Where I am Going

Providence College’s commencement exercises were two days ago. As I walked out of the Amica...

May 21, 2023

Thoughts on Discernment and a Blessing for the Graduates

Today is graduation day at Providence College, where I just finished my thirtieth year on...

May 18, 2023

It’s Hard to Talk About God

In our recently completed “Faith and Doubt” colloquium, my Dominican priest colleague and I filled...

May 10, 2023

What I Learned From My Father

One of the most important things an author has to write when a book is...

May 04, 2023

Various Ways of Saying “Hello” to God

You can either think of the creeds of the great traditions . . . as...

May 02, 2023

The Most Profoundly Religious Statement of All

In last Thursday's meeting of the "Faith and Doubt" seminar I team-teach with a Dominican...

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...

April 25, 2023

The Story of God and Us

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

April 23, 2023

Jesus, Cleopas, and Bob have a Conversation about Hope

“Now abide faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” These words...

April 20, 2023

So What? Now What?

Regular readers of this blog, or even those who just occasionally drop in, know that...

April 13, 2023

Jesus, Death, and Taxes

Thanks to the calendar, we get three extra days to file our taxes this year...

April 09, 2023

When Easter Fades, Where is Jesus to be Found?

God is not an insurance agent. H. G. Wells If you are a college basketball...

April 07, 2023

God is With Us–even on Good Friday

During the college basketball season, I occasionally watch a replay of the Providence Friars' most...

April 04, 2023

What Happens at the Fig Tree Stays at the Fig Tree

For those unfamiliar with the liturgical calendar, the Sunday and feast day assigned readings rotate...

April 02, 2023

Blessed is He Who Comes: A Palm Sunday Meditation

Today is Palm Sunday, one of the most dramatic days on the liturgical calendar. But...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

Lifting the Fog from Faith

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence...

March 26, 2023

To Truly Live, We Have to Die

In a podcast I was listening to while walking Bovina a few days ago, a...

March 21, 2023

When Stupidity Runs Amok . . .

In December of 1942, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a Christmas letter to a number of his...

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