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April 19, 2026

Teachers with Guns

In my ethics class last Thursday we began our final unit of the semester: Gun...

October 2025

October 26, 2025

Be Merciful to Me, A Sinner . . .

Today's gospel reading reminds me of an August day several years ago when the small...

July 2025

July 23, 2025

A Forgotten Anniversary–Again!

Jeanne and I visited our friends Suzy and Michael in Florida over the weekend. They...

July 16, 2025

Remembering a Friend After a Decade

I was reminded by email a couple of days ago that it has been a...

July 06, 2025

Listening to the Invisible People

Today's reading from the Jewish scriptures contains many powerful lessons that remain relevant thousands of...

July 01, 2025

There are Two Kinds of People . . .

I ran an informal experiment on Facebook not long ago, the point of which was...

March 2025

March 09, 2025

A Lenten Time Change–How are you doing?

For many of us, Daylight Saving Time began this morning at 2:00 am. This year's...

January 2025

January 12, 2025

Remembering an Excellent Colleague and Friend

I have been in a somber mood for the last few days, ever since the...

October 2024

October 27, 2024

Now My Eye Sees You

The lectionary readings from the Jewish scriptures this month have walked us through the Book...

December 2023

December 05, 2023

Bagpipes, Cats, and Saint Andrew

Last Thursday was Saint Andrew's Day; I was reminded beause my Scottish friend Craig posted...

November 2023

November 05, 2023

Time Change Distress is a First World Problem

In the wee hours of this morning, the time changed from Daylight Saving Time to...

August 2023

August 22, 2023

The Big Sister I Always Wanted: Remembering Marsue three years later

It doesn't seem possible that it has been exactly three years since Marsue Harris, one...

July 2023

July 23, 2023

You Say You Want a Revolution?

There is a saying, particularly popular among conservatives, that “A conservative is a liberal who...

July 18, 2023

Do I Teach or Am I a Teacher? On Being a Verb Rather than a Noun

I have two book projects in the works these days. I just finished a full...

March 2023

March 09, 2023

Whose Life Is it Anyway?

Albert Camus' classic extended essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" begins as follows: There is but...

October 2022

October 22, 2022

What is Prayer Supposed to Accomplish?

Today's gospel lectionary reading reminds me of an August day several years ago when the...

September 2022

September 20, 2022

Some Stories are Not Redemptive. But They All are Important

The first reading assignment in my General Ethics class this semester was Kate Jennings’ 2002...

June 2022

June 11, 2022

The Spiritual Life of Crows

My childhood was filled with unusual characters, all products of my father’s fertile imagination. A...

April 2022

April 20, 2022

Curb Your Enthusiasm

There is a saying attributed to Saint Francis that I have heard frequently in more...

April 04, 2022

What Playing Wordle has Taught Me About Myself

It seems that just about everyone I know is playing “Wordle” every day. I asked...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

This Year Sucked, Just Like the Last One. Now What?

Although today is the next-to-last day of 2021, I am writing ten days earlier on...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

Advent and the Gift of Being Human

In Philosophical Fragments, 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard tells a lovely story about a powerful king...

November 18, 2021

Teachers, Guns, and Sacred Spaces

Today in my ethics classes we will begin our final unit of the semester: Gun...

November 07, 2021

How to Survive the Time Change (and other first world problems)

In the wee hours of this morning, the time changed from Daylight Saving Time to...

September 2021

September 07, 2021

When Life Gets Messy

We all know that when life hands you a lemon that you should make lemonade....

August 2021

August 19, 2021

The Hypocrisy of Philosophers

I admit it--I am not always kind or politically correct on social media (especially Twitter)....

April 2021

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 13, 2021

I Like Time Changes! So sue me.

For many of us, Daylight Saving Time begins tomorrow at 2:00 am. That's "spring forward,"...

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 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...

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