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January 2022

January 15, 2022
Miracles come in all shapes and sizes, both unmistakable and inexplicable. Anne Lamott writes that...
January 12, 2022
At the beginning of a recent episode of “Consider This,” NPR’s daily afternoon news podcast,...
January 11, 2022
I, as well as the rest of the world, was saddened to hear of the...
January 08, 2022
Among the many striking images that we have all seen in the year that has...
January 06, 2022
One year ago, a mob of insurrectionists stormed and temporarily occupied the U.S. Capitol building...
January 04, 2022
One of the texts that I regularly use in my ethics classes is a collection...
January 02, 2022
In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word was made flesh,...
January 01, 2022
Happy New Year! It is thirteen years since I arrived on a sub-zero January day—President...

December 2021

December 30, 2021
Although today is the next-to-last day of 2021, I am writing ten days earlier on...
December 28, 2021
Today on the liturgical calendar is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the day that...
December 26, 2021
Each week for many years, Garrison Keillor told “Prairie Home Companion” listeners the news from...
December 23, 2021
Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...
December 21, 2021
If you are fond of a cup, say “I am fond of a cup!” For...
December 19, 2021
I have the privilege of giving the sermon at Trinity Episcopal Church in Pawtuxet, RI...
December 17, 2021
The soundtrack of my youth is classical music. I was classically trained on the piano...
December 15, 2021
We seek retreats for ourselves in country places, on beaches and mountains . . ....
December 13, 2021
The premise of Sue Monk Kidd's 2020 novel The Book of Longings is simple, and will...
December 11, 2021
As I write this essay on Friday afternoon, it is the last day of regular...
December 09, 2021
Baptist preacher’s kids get to do some very odd things. I memorized large portions of...
December 06, 2021
At the end of the first of two semesters in the interdisiplinary and team-taught honors...
December 05, 2021
Jeanne got on the Amtrak early one Sunday morning not that long ago, beginning two...
December 02, 2021
November 30 was Saint Andrew's Day. Even though I am two days late, I offer...

November 2021

November 30, 2021
In Philosophical Fragments, 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard tells a lovely story about a powerful king...
November 28, 2021
Today is the first day of the new Christian liturgical year--the First Sunday of Advent....
November 26, 2021
Today is Black Friday, the unfortunate beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Apparently in service...
November 23, 2021
I have a Facebook acquaintance, a fellow graduate of St. John’s College, who posts five...
November 20, 2021
At a recent department meeting, our department chair wondered whether it might be good for...
November 18, 2021
Today in my ethics classes we will begin our final unit of the semester: Gun...
November 16, 2021
I am always encouraged when I find that various topics and issues that I obsess...
November 13, 2021
Uncertainty doesn't make a person less faithful; it just makes her more honest. Rachel Held Evans...
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