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March 2016

March 23, 2016

The Origin of Knowing & Doing

As I left Pittsburgh the other day, I decided to leave slowly, lingering through some of...

March 16, 2016

To Fly, Fly Away…

“You must live in the place that is the station of your labor and your...

March 09, 2016

The Danger of Cheap Ideas

A couple days ago I talked all day long to a group of academic leaders...

March 02, 2016

Three Words We Should Care More About

Cult. Cultivate. Culture. About a month ago in Bratislava, Slovakia, at the conference, “Visions for the...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

“Joy” and the Power of a Dream

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that will not work.” Dreams are...

February 17, 2016

A Conversation with a Stranger and Common Grace

“It was such a dark time.” A couple weeks ago I was on a train from...

February 10, 2016

Our Moral Responsibility to Pay Attention

Pay attention. I have been teaching for a long time, and I confess that while I...

February 03, 2016

Where “The Revenant” Missed the Mark

For a few years I lived my life in light of the mountain men, imagining...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

When Peacemaking is Unpopular

Commonwealth is an unusual word in the modern world. Still used in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky...

January 20, 2016

Sonship in Star Wars

Of the Father’s love begotten…. I do love music, and love different kinds of music....

January 06, 2016

The Way the World’s Supposed to Be

The way the world’s supposed to be. Is there a world like that? Do we...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Scrooge’s Question to Us

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future….” Of all the scenes in A Christmas Carol, the...

December 23, 2015

Far as the Curse is Found

All of us have antennae. We watch for things, hoping that what we see and...

December 16, 2015

Who Are We, Anyway?

“What are the Japanese peasants looking for in me? These people who live and work...

December 02, 2015

Justice Cannot Be Just Us

“At crucial moments of choice, most of the business of choosing is already over.” There...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Thankful for Good Neighbors

Neighbors by choice. There is nothing magic about it, though I am sure there are...

November 18, 2015

Mad Men and Reality

Falling, falling, falling…. and finally, he fell. When the clock struck 9:30 pm or so,...

November 11, 2015

M&M’s and Moral Capitalism

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Consumerism Gone Wild....

November 04, 2015

A Glimpse into The Gathering

The most beautiful, and the most broken, all together— making sense of both is the...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

The Good Work of the Praxis Labs

What makes good work good? A lot could be said, and has. But it’s a...

October 21, 2015

Conversations with Consequences

Conversations with consequences. A few weeks ago I was staying up on Lookout Mountain, a rangy...

October 14, 2015

A Common Calling

“We don’t fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

The Way We See, and Why

“When we describe, we do so as active agents whose intentions and moral character pervade...

September 23, 2015

Our Questions, Our Callings, Our Committments

It was a Donegal year.Before 1972 I’m sure that I never heard the name, but...

September 18, 2015

The Stories We Live By

Most of yesterday I found myself living within the world of William Wilberforce, which has...

September 09, 2015

A Prayer for Labor Day

A prayer for labor, for the loves and the longings woven into the very work...

September 02, 2015

Head and Heart and Hands

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

Remarkable Joy, Remarkable Sadness

Sadness and joy. Sometimes we read something, and it simply jumps off of the page....

August 20, 2015

Longing for Something More

Some evenings simply mean more. Like one from a few weeks ago when Meg and...

August 12, 2015

Over the Shoulder, Through the Heart

Over the shoulder, through the heart. For most of my life I have thought about the...

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