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February 2021

February 26, 2021

How Has the Pandemic Changed Us? Has It Changed Us Enough?

Unfortunately, I fear that as a collective society the pandemic has not sufficiently awakened us...

January 2021

January 17, 2021

Yes, It’s About the White Supremacy

In this case, the first and maybe most lasting images we got cast the “rioters”...

January 12, 2021

Conspiracy Theories, Alternate Reality, and the Perils of Totalitarian Religion

A sacramental imagination should engage us with what is real and present. It should not...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

What Is Wrong With the Christian Religion?

White supremacists should hate and fear all that the church stands for. Yet look how...

December 14, 2020

This Has Been a Test

What will happen if another pandemic comes along – which it likely will – that...

December 09, 2020

In the Darkness of Advent, Hope Arises

It seems that true Advent hope only rises as we walk the path from darkness—including...

November 2020

November 14, 2020

The Real Significance of Writing King Lear in Quarantine

We need Lear; we need to be able to rant and rave on a blasted...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Does Voting “Pro-Life” Actually Save Lives?

If human life is the thing that you value most, you have to do more...

October 15, 2020

Reality and Unreality: The Questioning of Amy Coney Barrett

We are now all living in the world of Donald Trump. And that world is...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

We Shall Have Our Anger. We Shall Have Our Sorrow

People tell us that sorrow and anger are unproductive , and I don't believe it....

July 2020

July 18, 2020

It Is Clear By Now that We Are Not All In This Together

The world watches in horror as our numbers go up. And the world closes its...

May 2020

May 25, 2020

The Demand to Open Churches Is the Opposite of Christ-Like

Jesus taught that we ought to be willing to die for him. Yet here we...

May 22, 2020

Today, I Am Ashamed of the United States

How can we call ourselves a “Christian nation” when, instead of standing in collective mourning...

May 15, 2020

What Are We Willing To Sacrifice, To Get Through the Pandemic?

Will we be willing to sacrifice some of the pleasures of our precious “American” way...

May 11, 2020

How We Speak About Death

For Christians who believe in the resurrection of the body it seems evasive to talk...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

In The Midst of Pandemic, The Personal Is Political, More than Ever

What they are actually demanding, even if they do not realize it, is not freedom...

April 10, 2020

The Danger of Faith Without Evidence, Religion Without Immanence

The danger of rejecting the moral significance of earthly life, the here and now, in...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Right Wing Leaders Propose Human Sacrifice To Prop Up the One Percent

What people like Dan Patrick and R.R. Reno are proposing is literally human sacrifice. That...

March 12, 2020

Reading Plague Novels In a Time of Pandemic

Still, King’s novel - as well as Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, and novels dealing with historical...