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June 2025

June 19, 2025
As I continue to work through my next book project that has been on the...
June 17, 2025
My brother and I stay in contact most regularly on Facebook, where he had the...
June 15, 2025
I'm re-working a full draft of my next book project--Nice Work If You Can Get...
June 12, 2025
When you've been together with someone for thirty-seven years, being creative for that person's birthday...
June 09, 2025
Today is Jeanne's birthday. It's an important one as she begins a new decade. Last...
June 08, 2025
The Day of Pentecost, next to Christmas and Easter, is undoubtedly the biggest single day...
June 06, 2025
Pastor Dan, the interim pastoral caretaker of  the Lutheran church that Jeanne attends (and I...
June 03, 2025
In her spiritual memoir Still, Lauren Winner tells the story of a conversation between poet...
June 01, 2025
I'm currently reading through my book Nice Work If You Can Get It for the first time...

May 2025

May 29, 2025
Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most important philosophers of his generation, died last week at...
May 27, 2025
Truth be Told A week or so ago Jeanne needed to go to a department...
May 25, 2025
Memorial Day is a time to honor those who have made sacrifices over the years,...
May 22, 2025
In a perfect world, I would never give a written final exam in any class...
May 20, 2025
That's a wrap for another academic year, number 34 since I walked across a stage...
May 18, 2025
Dear Graduates... Today is graduation day at Providence College, where I just finished my thirty-first...
May 15, 2025
It was about five years ago, in the height of the pandemic during the closing...
May 13, 2025
Oral Exams and Conclaves Last week was final exam week--I administered 32 written exams and...
May 11, 2025
An Ovine Faith One of my prized possessions, purchased when  Jeanne and I were on...
May 04, 2025
One of the downsides of the liturgical calendar is that, since it runs in a...
May 01, 2025
I tend to have a difficult time falling and/or staying asleep at night when Jeanne...

April 2025

April 29, 2025
There may be no need to reconcile all one’s beliefs with all one’s other beliefs—no...
April 27, 2025
Doubt is Next to Godliness Last Friday's post imagined a conversation between Karl Marx and...
April 25, 2025
We should read the New Testament as saying that how we treat each other on...
April 22, 2025
I was, as were billions of other people, saddened to hear the news of Pope...
April 20, 2025
Easter is the celebration of the promise of hope, the promise of new life, that...
April 19, 2025
Holy Saturday reminds us that we are mortal and that we all will die. Quoting...
April 18, 2025
The gospel reading for the Good Friday liturgy from John’s gospel begins with Jesus’s arrest...
April 17, 2025
The drama from Thursday into early Friday of Holy Week is both familiar and inescapable....
April 16, 2025
The appointed gospel for Wednesday of Holy Week takes us to a dramatic scene in...
April 15, 2025
In all three of the synoptic gospels, the first thing that Jesus does early in...
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