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May 2026

May 06, 2026

AI and Human Dignity

Last Sunday I set the stage for my next several posts by engaging with a...

April 2026

April 26, 2026

The Mulch of the Spirit

A few days ago as I walked onto campus I was struck by a distinctive...

April 16, 2026

God is Change

All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting...

April 01, 2026

Making the Truth Laugh: An April Fools Day Reflection

I know that today is Wednesday in Holy Week, but it is also April Fools...

March 2026

March 29, 2026

A Palm Sunday Reflection: Blessed is He Who Comes

Today is Palm Sunday, one of the most dramatic days on the liturgical calendar. But...

March 25, 2026

White Privilege in the Classroom

Today I am starting a unit on race issues in my ethics class. For the...

March 15, 2026

The Problem with Substituionary Atonement

I just returned yesterday from a wonderful week with Justin in Sweden! To get back...

March 01, 2026

God So Loved The World

Today's gospel reading gets us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to remember...

February 2026

February 08, 2026

La Bella Luna: A Lunar Spirituality

Shortly before the 2013 conclave that would elect him as Pope Francis I, then Cardinal...

February 01, 2026

The Beatitudes: A Call to Change the World

It is a scene so familiar in our imaginations that it has become iconic. On...

November 2025

November 09, 2025

One Wife for Seven Brothers

It's football season! Here's a conversation overheard as a bunch of guys at a sports...

October 2025

October 23, 2025

What Teachers Can Learn From Jesus

One week from today is the official book launch of my new book A Year of...

August 2025

August 24, 2025

When We Say What We Don’t Believe

Today's appointed lectionary Psalm is one of my two or three favorites of all of...

July 2025

July 25, 2025

Let It Be

Every time I tell our Alexa to "play the Beatles," I stop what I'm doing...

July 13, 2025

The Good Samaritan and Humility

The Proper 10 Year C gospel from Luke is one of Jesus’s most beloved parables....

May 2025

May 11, 2025

We Are Waterproof: Finding Faith in the Life of Sheep

An Ovine Faith One of my prized possessions, purchased when Jeanne and I were on...

May 04, 2025

Finding Hope on the Road to Emmaus

One of the downsides of the liturgical calendar is that, since it runs in a...

April 2025

April 20, 2025

Easter–Now It Begins

Easter is the celebration of the promise of hope, the promise of new life, that...

April 19, 2025

Holy Saturday: “Mortals die, and are laid low”

Holy Saturday reminds us that we are mortal and that we all will die. Quoting...

April 18, 2025

Good Friday: “Actually, he died”

The gospel reading for the Good Friday liturgy from John’s gospel begins with Jesus’s arrest...

April 17, 2025

Maundy Thursday: “Could you not keep awake one hour?”

The drama from Thursday into early Friday of Holy Week is both familiar and inescapable....

April 16, 2025

Wednesday of Holy Week: Betrayal or Denial?

The appointed gospel for Wednesday of Holy Week takes us to a dramatic scene in...

April 15, 2025

Tuesday of Holy Week: Righteous Anger

In all three of the synoptic gospels, the first thing that Jesus does early in...

April 14, 2025

Monday of Holy Week: “You Always Have the Poor.”

The primary gospel readings for the weekdays in Holy Week are from John’s gospel, with...

April 13, 2025

Palm Sunday and the Tongue of a Teacher

Today is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. This year Holy Week is...

April 01, 2025

April Fools Day and Irreverence

IT’S APRIL FOOLS DAY–A PERFECT TIME FOR SOME IRREVERENCE! One of my continuing reading delights...

March 2025

March 30, 2025

What Frieda the Dog Taught Me About Personhood

Be a Person Masterpiece Theater recently began a several week production of The Mirror and...

March 25, 2025

Lazarus and the Call to Die Before You Die

Die Before You Die Yesterday afternoon I participated in a "Post-Sabbatical Presentation" event on campus...

March 02, 2025

When God Is Silent: N.T. Wright on Lament and Faith

When the Spirit Groans In a recent episode of one of my favorite podcasts, "Everything...

February 2025

February 21, 2025

Joseph, Peter, and Radical Forgiveness

The reading from the Jewish scriptures for this coming Sunday is from Genesis 45 when...

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