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September 01, 2024

A Labor Day Question: What Does the Lord Require of Us?

There are a couple of sayings attributed to Jesus that Christians often use when attempting...

August 2024

August 18, 2024

Dr. Seuss on Immanence and Transcendence

Today is Ordinary Time 13, the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Here's the section for that...

August 04, 2024

What Is This? A story about change

Organized religion often is a source of packaged answers and comfortable solutions to important questions...

June 2024

June 16, 2024

The Good Samaritan

Today is the Fifth Sunday after Easter in the lectionary, including a number of familiar...

May 2024

May 14, 2024

Perfection or Slight Improvement?

As I begin work on the final version of my forthcoming book A Year of...

April 2024

April 14, 2024

Designing God

Voltaire once wrote that if God did not exist, we would have to invent him....

March 2024

March 14, 2024

Eating Your Words. Literally.

Truth isn’t sympathetic to our need for certainty or stability. Jared Enns, “The Bible for...

March 10, 2024

Serpents in the Wilderness

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

March 07, 2024

Let There Be Light (or not)

In the opening lines of Genesis we are told that “In the beginning . ....

February 2024

February 29, 2024

Being a Person of Faith in Challenging Times

This has been a challenging week in class, not because of my students but because...

February 20, 2024

The Difference Between Pardoning and Forgiveness

On this day after Presidents Day I'm thinking about a specific power that presidents uniquely...

February 15, 2024

A Terrible Beauty

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper. I cannot quite make...

January 2024

January 18, 2024

Real Wives of the Ancient Middle East

Last Sunday's lectionary reading from the Hebrew Scriptures is the story of God's call of...

January 04, 2024

Why January 6th is Important

Three years ago this coming Saturday, I was sitting in the recliner in our little...

November 2023

November 19, 2023

Teach Us to Count Our Days

In an interesting confluence, today's lectionary Psalm--Psalm 90--plays an important role in the final section...

October 2023

October 03, 2023

Why October is the Best Month

Today is the third day of October, and that's a very good thing. I took...

August 2023

August 27, 2023

The Great Homesickness We Could Never Shake Off

The first draft of my first sabbatical book project is completed, minus the introduction and...

August 24, 2023

The Problem with Wisdom, Part Two

Last week I posted an essay called “The Problem with Wisdom, Part One,” inspired by...

August 17, 2023

The Problem with Wisdom, Part One

In much wisdom there is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. Ecclesiastes...

August 08, 2023

Dreamers Who Get Things Done

Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. This, promises...

July 2023

July 20, 2023

Achieiving the Peaceable Kingdom

One Sunday morning a number of years ago, I noticed that a reproduction of a...

July 02, 2023

Can We Negotiate With God?

Today's reading from the Jewish scriptures is Genesis 22, the well-known and infamous story of...

June 2023

June 02, 2023

Reading the Bible as Literarily (not literally) True

Last week I participated in a two-day end-of-the-academic-year workshop with a dozen fellow faculty in...

April 2023

April 23, 2023

Jesus, Cleopas, and Bob have a Conversation about Hope

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

April 07, 2023

God is With Us–even on Good Friday

During the college basketball season, I occasionally watch a replay of the Providence Friars' most...

April 06, 2023

Judas or Peter? A Holy Thursday Reflection

That to which your heart clings and entrusts itself is really your God. Martin Luther...

March 2023

March 19, 2023

The Thick Darkness Where God Is

Most everyone is familiar with the opening lines of Genesis, where we are told that...

March 07, 2023

Living with “Moment Faith”

After spending six and a half decades in the middle of this faith thing, one...

March 02, 2023

Getting Back to the Basics

This coming Sunday's gospel gets us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to...

February 2023

February 07, 2023

The Bible is Made of Chocolate

Truth isn’t sympathetic to our need for certainty or stability. Jared Enns, “The Bible for...

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