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February 2023

February 14, 2023
On Valentine's Day I am always challenged to think of something new to say for...
February 12, 2023
During my sabbatical semester over a decade ago at an ecumenial institute on the campus...
February 09, 2023
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace....
February 07, 2023
Truth isn’t sympathetic to our need for certainty or stability. Jared Enns, “The Bible for...
February 04, 2023
One of the matters I am paying close attention to this semester, as I prepare...
February 02, 2023
In his biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson tells us that one of the...

January 2023

January 31, 2023
I have a recently retired good friend and colleague in the philosophy department who has...
January 28, 2023
I have heard of you with my ears, but now my eyes have seen you. The...
January 26, 2023
Five years ago, my college celebrated its centennial. For Jeanne and me, the highlight of...
January 24, 2023
This coming Sunday's gospel reading is the Beatitudes from Matthew, the opening lines from the...
January 22, 2023
Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In...
January 19, 2023
There are two kinds of living things. They are distinguished by the strategies they have...
January 17, 2023
Spring semester classes start today. One of my courses is a team-taught colloquium with a...
January 15, 2023
At a department meeting not long ago, our department chair wondered whether it might be...
January 12, 2023
Over the past year or so I have read several books by Peter Enns, a...
January 10, 2023
During both the Advent and the Epiphany liturgical seasons, John the Baptist gets a lot...
January 07, 2023
The season of Epiphany, squeezed in between the Christmas season and Lent, is the annual...
January 05, 2023
The college basketball season is in full swing. Although I have not posted about it...
January 03, 2023
There are eight to ten movies that Jeanne and I watch religiously during the Christmas...
January 01, 2023
Every New Year’s Day for the past decade—the amount of time I have been writing...

December 2022

December 29, 2022
He who loves his life will lose it. John 12:25 I subscribe to two magazines, The...
December 27, 2022
This year Jeanne and I spent this year at home for Christmas for the first...
December 25, 2022
Good people all, this Christmas time Consider well and bear in mind What our good...
December 23, 2022
A few years ago, I was asked to take on a temporary administrative position for...
December 22, 2022
This has been an unusual Advent season. Advent is my favorite season in the liturgical...
December 20, 2022
If you have been a regular reader of this blog for a while (there are...
December 18, 2022
In my religious tradition, we didn’t do saints. But we did do Christmas pageants—big time....
December 15, 2022
As I begin to prepare for my next book project, a memoir on the teaching...
December 13, 2022
A few years ago, a Facebook friend posted a poll on her site. The question...
December 10, 2022
In a second season episode of “The Chosen,” a multi-year cinematic treatment of the life...
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