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February 2017

February 24, 2017

Just Do It

In the early hours of a Sunday morning not long ago, I read the final...

February 14, 2017

Valentine’s Day for the Mature

Human love in the purest forms we can know it, wife and husband, parent and...

February 01, 2017

Playing with Fire

Somewhere I heard or read that one of the top television programs in Finland (or...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

I Was a Stranger

A bit over a year ago, in the midst of the Presidential campaign that no...

January 11, 2017

Holy Family Values

Each week for the past many years, Garrison Keillor has told “Prairie Home Companion” listeners...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Learning Our Lessons

I’ve often said during my close to three decades of teaching philosophy on the college...

December 26, 2016

Clouds of Glory

The great but incredibly difficult German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in a rare moment of clarity,...

December 19, 2016

Bring It On

In a recent interview with Krista Tippett on NPR’s On Being, Jesuit author and spiritual...

December 16, 2016

I Will Bring You Home

Baptist preacher's kids get to do some very odd things. I memorized large portions of...

December 12, 2016

Constellations

I love the stars. Not as in “Dancing with . . .” or in Hollywood...

December 07, 2016

Being a Fanatic

Both the men's and women's basketball teams are off to great starts, just as the...

December 05, 2016

That Hopey Changey Thing

Although I was raised in the most non-liturgical version of Christianity imaginable, I love liturgy....

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Who Is Their God?

I recklessly thought that if something could save this election, it would be the faithfulness of...

November 18, 2016

Christians in the Public Square

Not long ago, in the middle of the political campaign that ended last week, I...

November 16, 2016

The Times They Are A-changin’

I’m going out on a limb here—way out. I like time changes. This year Daylight...

November 07, 2016

Life After Tuesday

A Facebook friend, who has helped the traffic on this blog increase exponentially over the...

November 05, 2016

Canine Ethics

Over the years I have developed dozens of strategies for getting students to participate in...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

October Musings

Autumn is my favorite season of the year, and October is my favorite month. This...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

It’s Not a Holy Relic!

In Milos Forman’s 1984 Academy Award winning film Amadeus, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, played...

September 16, 2016

The Fruit of the Blackberry

A few years ago, Jeanne returned from a weekend with a friend in Vermont with...

September 08, 2016

Embracing the Barbarian Invasion

Every year the world is invaded by millions of tiny barbarians. We call them “children.” ...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

What is a Podcast?

I remember clearly the morning several years ago when a colleague from the English department,...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Those Effing Blue Jays

It has been hot this week—low to mid-nineties with high humidity. I know, for those...

July 20, 2016

A Gnawing Suspicion

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions,...

July 11, 2016

Are We Better Than This?

A few days ago I posted the following on Facebook: My favorite sort of discussion...

July 01, 2016

Even Introverts Get Lonely

One of the most important reasons that Jeanne and I have been able to stay...

June 2016

June 24, 2016

A Reluctant Rose

In spite of my love of and occasional success with flowers and plants, I have...

June 11, 2016

Simply “The Greatest”

Upon hearing a week ago that Muhammad Ali had passed away, I posted something very...

June 08, 2016

Here Comes This Dreamer

Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. This, promises...

June 03, 2016

A REAL Philosopher

Somebody put a drop of his blood under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons...

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