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December 2022

December 28, 2022

What I’ve Been Reading Lately: End of the Year Books (2022)

Now and then I post annotated bibliographies of the reading I've doing lately. Here are...

September 2022

September 21, 2022

Resonating the Mountain: Some Good Ecotheology in The Rings of Power

I am, like many of you, watching The Rings of Power, basically as soon as Amazon...

September 07, 2022

Summer 2022 Reading

How about another list of books I've been reading? But first... Why Read Books? Like...

July 2022

July 19, 2022

Adventure and Mystery in Scott’s Rob Roy

Those who have been reading this column will be aware of my summer adventures in...

July 15, 2022

Two Summer Poems

This past week I've been homemaking. Cooking, hosting family. Saying my prayers while watching the...

June 2022

June 29, 2022

Lear’s Shadow: Reading Shakespeare with the Army

My travels this month gave me the unique opportunity to discuss tragedy, courage, and Shakespeare’s...

June 26, 2022

My Date with Rowan William

Last week I had the pleasure of talking theology, literature, and ecology with Rowan Williams....

June 04, 2022

What Does Tragedy Do?

Does tragedy serve a moral purpose? As my state carries on with funerals this week...

May 2022

May 28, 2022

The Meaning of Church, with Help from Gerard Manley Hopkins

What is a church? Let’s consider it specifically: the particular communities where many of us...

May 18, 2022

Purpose in Life

“I have lived under the impression that a man’s purpose is known only to God.”...

May 04, 2022

The Three Theologies of Toni Morrison’s Paradise

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down...

March 2022

March 12, 2022

The Language Net

Why does God give us language? That may not be a question you’ve ever wondered...

November 2021

November 24, 2021

Dune’s Religious Horizons

Is theology small-minded? Does it, I mean, depend on a limited perspective? That’s an assumption...

November 13, 2021

Can There Be a Theology of Poetry?

Therefore the mind finds metaphor. ... How I see better what is there after sitting...

October 2021

October 30, 2021

Tolstoy’s Bold Theology

“I couldn’t paint a Christ that was not in my soul.” -Mikhailov, in Tolstoy’s Anna...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Speaking My Truth, with Falstaff

What does it mean to be true to ourselves? Should I aim to speak “my...