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April 2021

April 21, 2021

Good Shepherd Sunday is Coming: Here’s why being a sheep isn’t a bad thing

One of my prized possessions, purchased when Jeanne and I were on vacation during Summer...

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...

April 13, 2021

The Tools of Lifetime Learning

My father, an itinerant Baptist minister, once told me about a plaque on the preacher’s...

April 03, 2021

An Easter Warning: Jesus Isn’t Walking Through That Door

God is not an insurance agent. H. G. Wells During Rick Pitino’s tenure as the...

March 2021

March 20, 2021

Dr. Seuss, Cancel Culture, and Why Each of Us Matters

Dr. Seuss has been in the news lately, as the Seuss estate chose earlier this...

March 11, 2021

Jesus Didn’t Care About Family Values

I was angry with my father for a lot of reasons over the years, some...

March 06, 2021

Today’s my Birthday–and it’s a big one!

I’ve lived almost two-thirds of a century now, so I have passed many of the...

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...

February 07, 2021

We are All Wind . . . and That’s a Good Thing

I am not a complainer by nature. My wife, my family, and my friends would...

February 02, 2021

Why Don’t I Feel as Badly as I Should?

I am sure that I’m not the only person who has spent noticeably more time...

January 2021

January 07, 2021

The Best of 2020 #5: Leaving Jesusland . . . For Good

For the next several Thursdays, I will be reposting my top blog posts of 2020,...

January 03, 2021

Dreaming and Doing

On New Year’s Day, I wrote that my New Year’s resolution this year is to...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

Is Tolerance a Luxury or a Virtue?

Earlier this month, I posted an essay titled "It Isn't True Just Because You Believe...

December 27, 2020

A Different Kind of Christmas Story

Because of Covid-19, a less-than-smooth transition from one administration to another, and a general impatience...

December 19, 2020

We Are the Hands and Feet of God

I begin with a couple of stories. Story #1: There has been vigorous debate on...

December 03, 2020

Will Goodness Become Cool?

As President-elect Biden rolls out his National Security choices, his economic strategy team, his communications...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

A Covid-19 Thanksgiving

For a number of reasons, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Because my sons (ages 8...

November 12, 2020

Dancing with the Stars

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

November 10, 2020

Hope: The Thing with Feathers

During his first speech as the new President-elect last Saturday evening, Joe Biden quoted lines...

November 05, 2020

What to Do When an Argument Leads to a Conclusion that You Don’t Like

People are prone to apply the meaning of other people’s arguments to suit opinions that...

November 01, 2020

Being a Person Rather than a Saint

Today is “All Saints Day. I come from a hardcore Protestant world, a world in which...

October 2020

October 20, 2020

The Soul is Not a Thing, but it Most Certainly is Real

As a philosophy professor, I have the opportunity in just about every class to investigate,...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

A Few Thoughts Before the First Presidential Debate

The first debate between the 2020 presidential nominees is this evening. It will come as...

September 27, 2020

“It has been done in your name”: When Christians do un-Christian things

One of my teaching teammates this semester in the interdisciplinary course I regularly participate in...

September 15, 2020

The Fat, Relentless Ego . . . and what to do about it

This past weekend, Jeanne and I, along with our two sons and our daughter-in-law, travelled...

September 13, 2020

There is No Substitute for the Real Thing

Not long ago, I had the opportunity to return to one of my two favorite...

September 08, 2020

Living On the Edges of the Christian Circus Tent

Jeanne and I celebrated our 32nd anniversary in July—the gifts we gave each other are...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

O God, Come to My Assistance

Classes begin at my college next Monday, and the stress levels among the faculty (and...

August 21, 2020

The Big Sister I Always Wanted: Remembering Marsue

Every once in a while, our lives are blessed with a person who uniquely and...

August 19, 2020

When the Bible is Not the Word of God

This month marks the eighth anniversary of this blog. It started on Wordpress as an...

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