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You mean THOSE people are my neighbors???
Not long ago, Jeanne and I saw “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”, the documentary about...
June 2019
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Do You Want To Be Free? Face Your Demons
The lectionary readings for today include two fascinating texts from Scripture: Elijah collapsed under a...
May 2019
May 28, 2019
At the end of each academic year, I tend to reflect back on the past...
May 21, 2019
Rise, Kill, and Eat: A Story About Learning to See Things Differently
Iris Murdoch was one of the philosophers whose work was front and center in my...
March 2019
March 06, 2019
On My Birthday, Here Are Some Things That I Know Are True
Today is my birthday, so I ask for your indulgence. Our culture tends to assume...
February 2019
February 24, 2019
Does Christianity Call for Perfection or Slight Improvement?
I have the privilege of giving the homily this morning at Trinity Episcopal Church in...
February 10, 2019
What Can We Do Now That There Is No God?
Several weeks into the new year, I am for the first time getting to teach...
November 2018
November 04, 2018
A couple of months ago, Jeanne and I saw "Won't You Be My Neighbor?", the...
August 2018
August 23, 2018
Last Tuesday, on the sixth anniversary of my blog, I posted my first blog post--an...
July 2018
July 15, 2018
What If God and Morality Have Nothing to Do with Each Other?
Is there any true transcendence, or is this idea always a consoling dream projected by...
May 2018
May 08, 2018
What is the best way to get the attention of a bunch of Episcopalians? I...
March 2018
March 22, 2018
Morality By The Skin Of Your Teeth
Any caring human being asks the question What is the right thing to do? on...
March 18, 2018
There Is A God, But I Do Not Believe In HIm
God would have us know that we must live as people who manage our lives...
March 15, 2018
The Christian Faith In a Nutshell
Sports fans old enough to remember the 70s and 80s will recall that a regular...
March 08, 2018
How Atheists and Theists Can Get Along
This coming week I will be starting a unit with my General Ethics students called...
February 2018
February 16, 2018
Almost every Sunday during the months I spent on sabbatical a few years ago in...
December 2017
December 01, 2017
The Advent season approaches, a season of waiting and expectation. I am rereading some of...
July 2017
July 23, 2017
Be Ye Therefore Slightly Improved
Jesus said 'Be ye therefore perfect." Wouldn't it have been more sensible for him to...
February 2017
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I recently led a discussion group focused, among other things, on the inadequacy of traditional religious...
January 2017
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January 06, 2017
Now that the New Year is upon us, I'm anxiously awaiting word that my latest...
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I read once that there are two kinds of living things—they are distinguished by the...
May 2015
May 29, 2015
When I was growing up in northeastern Vermont, the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury was a...
May 13, 2015
Another academic year is in the books, and as I will gladly be shifting into...
May 11, 2015
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July 16, 2014
Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement. It is a selfless respect for reality...
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