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October 2023

October 10, 2023

In Bed with Krista and Kate

It was just beginning to turn dimly light when I began to wake up. I...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Living the Social Gospel: Your faith is not just about you

In the interdisiplinary and team-taught honors course I am teaching in this academic year, we...

September 2022

September 13, 2022

When Atheism Turns Evangelical

An evangelical Christian and an atheist got into an argument recently on this blog's Facebook...

January 2022

January 24, 2022

Why Jesus was Obsessed with Outsiders

The first text in the new “Faith and Doubt” colloquium that I am team-teaching this...

December 2021

December 06, 2021

“On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Living the Social Gospel

At the end of the first of two semesters in the interdisiplinary and team-taught honors...

November 2020

November 19, 2020

God is Bigger than Religion

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks died on November 7, after a brief bout with cancer. Sacks...

October 2020

October 06, 2020

On Earth, as it is in Heaven: Why Faith is Always Political

Last Sunday, it was my turn to be lector at church. The reading from the...

November 2018

November 02, 2018

Spreading the Good News of Atheism

Last week, my blog post about what atheists and persons of faith can agree on...

January 2018

January 05, 2018

The Life of the Mind, or the Sewage of the Soul?

I recently got a shout-out from a colleague in the history department with whom I...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

Patriotism and the Art of Compromise

Jonathan Rauch: It is our duty as citizens to find ways to live together. I...

March 2017

March 06, 2017

Nature and Nature’s God

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are they not both...

December 2016

December 09, 2016

The Real War On Christmas

A few days ago I stumbled across one of the most remarkable tweets I have...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Something Rather Than Nothing

One of the most reliable ways to deaden a lively conversation in class is to...

September 2016

September 23, 2016

The Right Niyyah

As I wait impatiently for my sabbatical that is under contract with a publisher to...

September 06, 2016

Good Morning, Psalms

Last Thursday, in just our second class of the semester, I had the opportunity to...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

Bored with Thinking

Many years ago I read a paragraph in Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth that was...

September 2015

September 09, 2015

Behind the Curtain

Not long ago I led a seminar with a number of colleagues from the Honors...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

The Connections We Cannot Make

Not long ago a friend and colleague told me, as we were having a beer...

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