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Why Should We Be Hopeful?
Herodotus is considered to be the first true historian in the contemporary sense of the...
December 06, 2022
“With Mutual Respect”–An Exercise in Eloquent Listening
On the last Wednesday of September, an event took place on my college campus that...
December 04, 2022
“Truthiness” and the Incarnation
In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” as its word of the year, an adjective...
December 01, 2022
An Advent Wish: Peace Be to You
Advent began last Sunday. For many reasons, Advent is my favorite season of the liturgical...
November 2022
November 29, 2022
Living the Social Gospel: Your faith is not just about you
In the interdisiplinary and team-taught honors course I am teaching in this academic year, we...
November 27, 2022
Happy Advent–Stay Awake!
Happy New Year! Today is the First Sunday of Advent, the first day of the...
November 25, 2022
Get Thee Behind Me, Santa!
Today is Black Friday, on my shortlist of candidates for the stupidest day of the...
November 22, 2022
So What are YOU Thankful For This Year?
I have a Facebook acquaintance, a fellow graduate of St. John’s College, who posts five...
November 19, 2022
Living Life Forwards and Understanding it Backwards
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard One...
November 17, 2022
In Honor of Michael Gerson
I was saddened to hear this morning of the death of Washington Post columnist Michael...
November 17, 2022
What I Have Learned From Our Blackberry Bush
It is mid-November; the leaves on the large oak tree in the yard diagonally behind...
November 15, 2022
“Dear White America”: A Young Woman Reflects on her Inherent Racism
Yesterday was the final class in the “Race” unit in my General Ethics class; the...
November 12, 2022
“The Heart Has Its Reasons . . .”: My Evidence Against Atheism
Although I estimate that at least 80-90 percent of the negative comments and pushback I...
November 10, 2022
The Lady Macbeth School of Leadership
Last weekend I attended a student production of Macbeth on campus, the first such production...
November 08, 2022
Why Stories are Better than Arguments
The best argument in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that...
November 06, 2022
One Wife for Seven Brothers: A Strange Story with an Important Lesson
A conversation overheard as a bunch of guys at a sports bar wait for the...
November 03, 2022
Warthogs and Saints: Who Gets to be at the Front of the Line?
One of my colleagues and friends and I are beginning to construct the syllabus for...
November 01, 2022
Betting on God’s Existence
In my ethics class this week, we discussed an essay by Gary Gutting, who teaches...
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October 31, 2022
Do You Believe in Halloween Jesus?
It's Halloween. Halloween gives me the opportunity to consider my long and checkered past with...
October 29, 2022
How to Make Certain Christians Very Angry
In the ten-plus years of this blog’s existence, I have made any number of Christians...
October 27, 2022
Of Halloween, Baptists, and Socialism
Halloween is coming–one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends...
October 25, 2022
Karl Marx and Jesus Walk into a Bar . . .
We should read the New Testament as saying that how we treat each other on...
October 22, 2022
What is Prayer Supposed to Accomplish?
Today's gospel lectionary reading reminds me of an August day several years ago when the...
October 20, 2022
The Best Answer for Unanswerable Questions: “I Don’t Know”
Natural disasters have been on my mind recently. Perhaps it's because of the fury of...
October 18, 2022
How is your Optimism Doing These Days?
A few weeks ago in the interdisciplinary Honors course that I am team-teaching in this...
October 16, 2022
Mapping Ghosts and Believing Things that Aren’t True
Over the years that I have been writing this blog, those who describe themselves as...
October 13, 2022
Why it is So Hard to be Good
Back in December 2020, about a month after the November 2020 presidential election, I posted...
October 11, 2022
If You Meet a Stranger and If He’s Hungry, Feed Him
Yesterday was Columbus Day. Correction, it was Indigenous Peoples Day. This is not energized by...
October 09, 2022
We Don’t Need to Protect God
Human beings never behave so badly as when they believe they are protecting God. Barbara Brown...
October 06, 2022
What it is Like to Be a Snob
A bit over a week ago at my brother-in-law’s wake, I spent several minutes chatting...
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