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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 03, 2026

God is With Us–Even In the Darkness

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

June 2025

June 19, 2025

There Is No One But Us

As I continue to work through my next book project that has been on the...

June 03, 2025

The Terrain of the Sacred

In her spiritual memoir Still, Lauren Winner tells the story of a conversation between poet...

January 2025

January 20, 2025

The God of History is an Atheist: Thoughts on MLK Jr. Day

It is an ironic quirk of the calendar that January 20th--the consitutionally designated date for...

January 07, 2025

My Word for 2025

Anne Lamott tells the story of an older woman who, along with other active geriatric...

September 2024

September 08, 2024

What Does a Mature Faith Look Like?

I detect that a rebellion against all things “religious” is growing on me. Often it...

August 2024

August 16, 2024

What I Learned About Teaching From My Favorite Movie

Last Sunday Jeanne and I had guests over for dinner whom we had not seen...

June 2024

June 16, 2024

The Good Samaritan

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

June 04, 2024

Some Thoughts on Self-Repair

Two years ago this week I had a fall riding my bike that resulted in,...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

The Word is a Person

In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word was made flesh,...

January 2024

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 22, 2023

I Don’t Think That Parable Means What You Think It Means

Simone Weil once observed in a notebook entry that “the stories of miracles complicate everything.”...

April 2023

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...

March 2023

March 12, 2023

How to Educate a Story-Telling Animal

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

March 05, 2023

My Prime Number Birthday

Tomorrow is my birthday. You get one guess for how old I’ll be, with these...

March 02, 2023

Getting Back to the Basics

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

October 2022

October 20, 2022

The Best Answer for Unanswerable Questions: “I Don’t Know”

Natural disasters have been on my mind recently. Perhaps it's because of the fury of...

September 2022

September 07, 2022

What Does the Bible Say about _____________?

In an interview with CNN a few years ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said something that...

July 2022

July 14, 2022

Some Things Repair Themselves, and Some Things Do Not

My recently concluded crappy month of June ended with a minor fender-bender, the result of...

July 11, 2022

My Neighbor May Not Be the Person I Think It Is

I recently found myself in the midst of a Facebook discussion, the sort of online...

June 2022

June 07, 2022

How Should a Normal Person Approach the Bible?

I recently came across a great podcast called “The Bible for Normal People,” hosted by...

May 2022

May 10, 2022

Saying Something Profound

Regular classes for the spring semester ended last Friday--semesters seem to go by more quickly...

April 2022

April 17, 2022

I Will Awaken the Dawn: Some Thoughts for Easter

Our seven-month old corgi Bovina, one of the greatest joys of Jeanne’s and my life,...

April 16, 2022

Taking Death for a Walk: A Holy Saturday Reflection

A thing about dying is that you can't consult anyone who has done it. Peter...

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Jesus on April Fools Day

I know it's the middle of Lent, but tomorrow is April Fools Day. It's the...

March 20, 2022

The Will of God: How to Know It?

Midterm grades are due on my campus by midnight Wednesday; last Wednesday was the official...

March 07, 2022

A Stranger (Protestant) in a Strange Land (Catholic)

Last Wednesday the student in front of me in line at the little on campus...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

The Cruelest Thing a Person Can Say

I detect that a rebellion against all things “religious” is growing on me. Often it...

February 01, 2022

My Mistress and Me

At the beginning of the first seminar in my “Faith and Doubt” colloquium, I asked...

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