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October 2020

October 25, 2020

“If people are just going to keep doing that, I wish I’d never been born.”

We’ve all done this, we bang and bang on the door of hope, and don’t...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

Speaking the Truth in a Culture of Lies

Just short of a year ago, I spent a Saturday morning listening to a lecture...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

Death is Not Optional

I’ve been thinking a lot about end of life issues lately. Really. They seem to...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

A Pentecost Reflection: Sometimes Fast Food Isn’t Good Enough

Pentecost celebrates one of the high points in the Christian liturgical calendar, the coming of...

April 2020

April 23, 2020

Jesus, Cleopas, and George Have a Conversation About Hope

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

April 11, 2020

New Life is for Real: A Childhood Easter Tale

Several years ago, just in time for the Christmas holiday season, a new book by Sarah...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

When to Care, and When Not to Care

The only way I can get through the tedium of working out on an aerobic...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

The Best and the Worst: My New Year’s Hope for 2020

There are eight to ten movies that Jeanne and I watch religiously during the Christmas...

December 15, 2019

What May We Hope For?

Advent is the liturgical season that is most meaningful to me. I first encountered the...

June 2019

June 09, 2019

For Jeanne’s Birthday: You’re my guardian angel who keeps out the cold

Last week Jeanne and I went with a friend to see the Elton John biopic...

December 2018

December 23, 2018

Mary with No Assumptions

I have a colleague and friend with whom I share a lot in common. Eric...

December 11, 2018

Advent is for Introverts

I was raised in a version of Christianity that had no sense of the liturgical...

December 09, 2018

Banging on the Door of Hope

We’ve all done this, we bang and bang on the door of hope, and don’t...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Trailing Clouds of Glory, We Come From God

As we approach the Advent and Christmas seasons, I am in a forward-looking and hopeful...

March 2018

March 01, 2018

A More Plausible God

In a couple of weeks, we will be starting a unit in my General Ethics...

August 2017

August 17, 2017

Two Reasons to be Hopeful (even with Donald Trump as President)

There are reasons to be hopeful--even on those days that Nazis, white supremacists, racists, and...

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