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September 2021

September 12, 2021

The Stories We Tell and the Lies We Believe

As always, this past summer was a season of eclectic reading. I am team-teaching a...

September 09, 2021

A Question for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11: Are We Tired of Hating People Yet?

Everyone beyond a certain age can remember clearly what they were doing twenty years ago when...

August 2021

August 28, 2021

Why Am I a Liberal? Because I Am a Christian

The continuing theme of this blog for the past nine years has been an exploration...

August 26, 2021

Now It Begins . . .

In last few minutes of Franco Zefferelli's Jesus of Nazareth, Zerah pokes his head into the...

August 21, 2021

Bad News for White Evangelical Christians

Coming in at #2 of the most-read posts in the nine years of this blog...

August 14, 2021

The Coronavirus and End Times

Sometimes various elements of real life align in unexpected ways. In the Spring semester of...

August 05, 2021

How To Tell the Difference Between Arrogance and Expertise

After participating in a frustrating “discussion” on Twitter the other day (is there any other...

July 2021

July 29, 2021

Is This America?

During Tuesday’s initial hearing of the Congressional select committee tasked with investigating the January 6th...

July 27, 2021

Of Marx and Vineyards

After getting sucked into an discussion on Twitter a few days ago in which it...

July 16, 2021

How to Defund the Police

I don't often post an essay on this blog that has no discernable connection to...

July 03, 2021

Nationalism is Unpatriotic: An Independence Day Reflection

I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of Independence Day. I fully...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

How to Take Our Country Back

As Independence Day approaches, there are many reasons to be hopeful. Things are continuing to...

June 27, 2021

It’s Time to Get Back to Work

As we continue to move toward "normalcy" after close to a year-and-a-half of pandemic shut...

June 22, 2021

The Truth Will Mess You Up

I’ve always been afraid of people in possession of what they believe to be the...

June 12, 2021

God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It? Not so much.

One of the books I gave Jeanne for her birthday this past week is As a...

June 06, 2021

Learning From Our Inferiors

As the world begins to open up after fifteen months of pandemic restrictions, as things...

May 2021

May 31, 2021

A Memorial Day Question: Is Our Experiment in Democracy Failing?

Memorial Day is a great time to honor those who have made sacrifices over the...

May 20, 2021

Why Graduation Day and Pentecost Belong Together

Today is commencement on my campus. There were no commencement exercises last year--that there will...

March 2021

March 23, 2021

Enough Already with the “Thoughts and Prayers.” They aren’t working.

So here we are again. Mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder in the last week,...

March 09, 2021

#SayThisNotThat

To clarify thought, to discredit the intrinsically meaningless words, and to define the use of...

February 2021

February 16, 2021

The Earth is Round. Two Plus Two Equals Four. Deal With It

The earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won...

February 09, 2021

“So We Could Blend In”: A U.S. Congressman Learns About White Privilege

Today is the first day of the impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump...

February 04, 2021

The Best of 2020 #1: The Coronavirus, the Apocalypse, and The Book of Revelation

It is not surprising, given what 2020 was like, that the most viewed post on...

January 2021

January 26, 2021

Liberal Christianity on the Rise

Last Saturday, the New York Times published a fascinating article by Elizabeth Dias called “In...

January 24, 2021

Dealing With Our Inner Nazi

We ought not to hide from ourselves that Nazi Germany is a mirror for all...

January 19, 2021

Can You Be a Christian Capitalist? Can You Be a Capitalist Christian?

There is nothing that attracts the ire of various commenters on this blog more than...

January 17, 2021

Stupidity On Display: Where do we go from here?

As the nation continues to process and seek to understand the seditious riot and occupation...

January 14, 2021

The Best of 2020 #4: I am a Liberal Because I am a Christian

Coming in at #4 in my list of my top blog posts of 2020, judged...

January 05, 2021

The President Who Wouldn’t Leave

One of my favorite skits from the early years of Saturday Night Live involved a...

December 2020

December 14, 2020

News Flash: There is Going to be a Doctor in the House

When does a person get to use the title "Doctor" in front of their name?...

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