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February 2019

February 14, 2019

Grownup Love: A Post for Valentine’s Day

Not long ago, Jeanne and I had dinner with Beverley and Ed, two Long Island...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Slouching Toward 2019

Love does not say “I ought to love”—it loves. Pity does not say “It is...

December 27, 2018

Murdering the Innocents: A Different Kind of Christmas Story

This Christmas season seems more dissonant than most, with violence across the globe, a partial...

December 02, 2018

Advent and the Blessing of Being Human

Each Advent for the past eight years, I have had the privilege of giving a...

November 2018

November 11, 2018

Teach Us to Care and Not to Care

I began Election Day last Tuesday at the gym, riding the stationary bike for an...

September 2018

September 30, 2018

Putting Out the Welcome Mat: Who is Welcome at Your Place of Worship?

In her wonderful book Take This Bread, Sara Miles describes a conversation she had with...

September 04, 2018

Whatever Prayer Is For, It Isn’t That

A week ago, the small Episcopal church that I frequently attend moved its morning services...

September 03, 2018

It’s Labor Day–What is YOUR Labor Worth?

It's Labor Day--an opportunity for each of us to reflect on the value of our...

September 02, 2018

Remembering John McCain: How to Move Past a Season of Cowardice

While the President of the United States tweeted his usual string of petty Saturday morning...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

The Never-Ending Prayer

As I do initial work on my new book on prayer (contract now signed!), I...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Does Everything Work Together for Good?

Jeanne and I recently had the opportunity to see a local community theater’s production of...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

A Prayer for Graduates on Commencement Weekend

May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships,...

April 2018

April 01, 2018

An Easter Cautionary Tale: Jesus Isn’t Walking Through That Door

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

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Insufficient Evidence

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and...

January 09, 2018

Six Flags Over Jesus

My friend Michael lives with his family in Florida. That in itself makes me wonder...

October 2017

October 15, 2017

We Can Do Better Than Righteous Anger

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 I confessed on this...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Let Us Cultivate our Garden

What is one to do when what one professes to believe has become, as Macbeth...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Quiet Ignorance

Over the past several years, I have frequently returned to a question that a friend...

March 05, 2017

Sixty-One Years On

I've no wish to be living sixty years on Elton John Tomorrow is my birthday!...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

Valentine’s Day for the Mature

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

November 2016

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...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Four Things to Remember

My past several reading weeks have been spent, for the most part, with Chief Inspector...

May 06, 2016

It’s That Time Of Year

On Monday, one of my Providence College faculty colleagues posted this on Facebook: Today was...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Remembering the Revolution

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

April 11, 2016

Forty-Seven Books

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

December 2015

December 26, 2015

Remembering a Friend

“Happy Stoning Day!” Brother John said as he greeted me below the choir stalls after...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Too Soon

Just before Thanksgiving a year ago a wonderful colleague and friend from my college died...

September 2015

September 04, 2015

Life at Ten Miles per Hour

Following my bike ride the other day, as I frequently do I posted some pictures...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

The Difference Between Canadians and Americans–in one baseball game

A beautiful day in Toronto in front of me—what to do? Jeanne was tied up...

February 2014

February 14, 2014

Buster and Donna

Jeanne and I are the living embodiments of the old adage that “opposites attract.” Quickly....

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