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June 2021

June 29, 2021
As Independence Day approaches, there are many reasons to be hopeful. Things are continuing to...
June 27, 2021
As we continue to move toward "normalcy" after close to a year-and-a-half of pandemic shut...
June 24, 2021
My next book project is a memoir about the teaching life. I started gathering materials...
June 22, 2021
I’ve always been afraid of people in possession of what they believe to be the...
June 19, 2021
One of the most important things an author has to write when a book is...
June 17, 2021
In Lies We Believe Abut God, Wm. Paul Young (author of The Shack) tells the story of...
June 15, 2021
At the beginning of a seminar on the books of Exodus and Job from the...
June 12, 2021
One of the books I gave Jeanne for her birthday this past week is As a...
June 10, 2021
Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In...
June 09, 2021
Over the past year, I have read and heard reports of marriages either on the...
June 07, 2021
The last text of the semester in my “Apocalypse” colloquium was Emily St. John Mandel’s...
June 06, 2021
As the world begins to open up after fifteen months of pandemic restrictions, as things...
June 04, 2021
Frank Tupper, an important Baptist theologian who argued that God is in control of very...
June 02, 2021
All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting...

May 2021

May 31, 2021
Memorial Day is a great time to honor those who have made sacrifices over the...
May 29, 2021
Next to Lent, the part of the liturgical calendar that I have always found least...
May 26, 2021
Not long ago, I read Hilary Mantel’s long-awaited The Mirror and the Light, the final...
May 25, 2021
The central theme of my ethics class this past semester was human dignity. Through short...
May 23, 2021
Jeanne and I once watched a documentary called “Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action,” created,...
May 20, 2021
Today is commencement on my campus. There were no commencement exercises last year--that there will...
May 18, 2021
Exactly twelve years ago today, I headed home from a four-month sabbatical as a Resident...
May 15, 2021
My wife Jeanne and I have been enjoying “The Chosen,” a multi-year cinematic life of...
May 13, 2021
It is a reminder of the world we have been living in for more than...
May 10, 2021
“What’s the difference between chili con carne and chili con queso?” I ask my freshman...
May 09, 2021
I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...
May 05, 2021
Over the past few weeks, I have received more negative comments on my blog than...
May 03, 2021
“Remember K from our colloquium last year?” my teaching partner emailed late last week. “G...
May 02, 2021
After the mass shooting in a Colorado grocery store a few weeks ago, a woman...

April 2021

April 29, 2021
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shakespeare, King Lear Last week,...
April 27, 2021
A Polish Franciscan priest. A Lutheran pastor and theologian. A French, Jewish social activist attracted...
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