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September 15, 2017

What I Want, When I Want It

I was born into a world in which preference-expression was a highly evolved art form...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

They’re Baaack . . . .

We are in the business of believing in, and promoting, things that don’t yet exist....

August 15, 2017

What People of Faith Share in Common with Atheists

The more I realize why my faith is important to me, the more I realize...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

A Sower Went Forth To Sow . . .

Every writer knows that writing is an inefficient and non-economical process. One never knows when...

July 09, 2017

The Burden of LIght

In today's gospel, Jesus says that his yoke is easy and his burden is light....

June 2017

June 28, 2017

A Liberal’s Worst Nightmare

Liberals are appalled by the provisions of the health care bill that Republicans are trying...

June 10, 2017

I Am Because You Are

It became clear at the Comey hearing and after that Donald Trump's primary concern is...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Trump at Liberty University

There are many possible reasons why evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump in record numbers....

May 12, 2017

My Imaginary Friend

There are billions of human beings who shape their whole reality and might even stake...

May 08, 2017

Does God Love Diversity?

During a forum about diversifying our very white campus a few years ago, a colleague...

April 2017

April 22, 2017

One Heart and Soul

“What does the Lord require of us?" Do justice. Love mercy. Walk humbly with your...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

I Don’t Know

Let me tell you here first, “trust in God” has never floated my boat as...

March 20, 2017

What Silence Sounds Like

Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again. “The Sound of...

March 10, 2017

The Problem of Goodness

During the early years of my career I developed the habit of teaching at least...

March 10, 2017

The Problem of Goodness

During the early years of my career I developed the habit of teaching at least...

March 06, 2017

Nature and Nature’s God

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

February 2017

February 20, 2017

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

It's President's Day, which for all college professors means--as do all Monday holidays in the...

February 17, 2017

Socratic Faith

He lived over two millennia ago, and as far as we know he never wrote...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

I Was a Stranger

A bit over a year ago, in the midst of the Presidential campaign that no...

January 25, 2017

The “F” Word

There’s nothing like unexpectedly dropping an f-bomb on a bunch of students. But it’s even...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Learning Our Lessons

I’ve often said during my close to three decades of teaching philosophy on the college...

December 19, 2016

Bring It On

In a recent interview with Krista Tippett on NPR’s On Being, Jesuit author and spiritual...

December 05, 2016

That Hopey Changey Thing

Although I was raised in the most non-liturgical version of Christianity imaginable, I love liturgy....

November 2016

November 25, 2016

Fixing and Healing

My doctor says that I am his most boring patient, because there is never anything...

November 14, 2016

Is He My President?

Jesus spoke the truth AND confronted those who used their position to justify their lies,...

November 05, 2016

Canine Ethics

Over the years I have developed dozens of strategies for getting students to participate in...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

The Designer God Project

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

October 19, 2016

Sorry for the Inconvenience

Dear Dr. Morgan: I’m writing to let you know that I won’t be in class...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

West of What?

The heart of Providence College’s core curriculum is the Development of Western Civilization (DWC) program,...

September 23, 2016

The Right Niyyah

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

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