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Balancing Humility with Expertise
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During my sabbatical semester over a decade ago at an ecumenial institute on the campus...
January 2023
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Five years ago, my college celebrated its centennial. For Jeanne and me, the highlight of...
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“It has been done in your name”: A cautionary tale from Charles Dickens
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“With Mutual Respect”–An Exercise in Eloquent Listening
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“Truthiness” and the Incarnation
In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” as its word of the year, an adjective...
November 2022
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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...
November 10, 2022
The Lady Macbeth School of Leadership
Last weekend I attended a student production of Macbeth on campus, the first such production...
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How to Make Certain Christians Very Angry
In the ten-plus years of this blog’s existence, I have made any number of Christians...
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Abortion and Faith Discussions: Begin How You Want It To End
I wrote this essay while I was on retreat in early July but, for reasons...
August 2022
August 30, 2022
It Is “The Best of Times” Once Again
Literary phrases for the beginning of a new academic year abound, such as Dickens' "It...
August 25, 2022
Anniversary Week for “Freelance Christianity”: Here’s the #1 post in the past decade
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Anniversary Week for “Freelance Christianity”: Here’s the #2 post in the past decade
This week marks the tenth anniversary of this blog--hard to believe! It has been on...
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When People of Good Faith have Incompatible First Principles on the Abortion Issue
I had an unusually positive experience a couple of days ago—amazingly enough, it was in...
June 2022
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Cassidy Hutchinson and a Story from Ancient Syria
Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the January 6th Select Committee last Tuesday was both powerful and...
May 2022
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Loving My Country and Loving God are Not the Same Thing
The June edition of The Atlantic contains an excellent and sobering article by Tim Alberta. Titled...
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I seldom jump into current events in this blog, simply because I don't want to...
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Is a Ukrainian Life Worth Higher Gas Prices?
A regular reader of my blog asked the other day whether I might want to...
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The (White) Privilege of “Blending In”
Roughly a month after the 1/6 insurrection last year, at a House of Representatives event...
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Throwing Away the Image of God
At the beginning of a recent episode of “Consider This,” NPR’s daily afternoon news podcast,...
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Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, and the Power of Forgiveness
I, as well as the rest of the world, was saddened to hear of the...
January 08, 2022
Against Stupidity, We Are Defenseless
Among the many striking images that we have all seen in the year that has...
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He Has Put Down the Mighty From Their Throne
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“On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Living the Social Gospel
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Teachers, Guns, and Sacred Spaces
Today in my ethics classes we will begin our final unit of the semester: Gun...
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Facts and Faith–Do They Go Together?
I am always encouraged when I find that various topics and issues that I obsess...
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A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma
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