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December 2019

December 15, 2019
Advent is the liturgical season that is most meaningful to me. I first encountered the...
December 12, 2019
One of my teaching teammates this past semester in the interdisciplinary course I regularly participate...
December 10, 2019
At some point early in their musical training, all serious musicians are introduced to the...
December 08, 2019
I have taught philosophy in Catholic higher education for twenty-eight years as a non-Catholic. Although...
December 05, 2019
I haven’t posted anything political here in a while; it’s Advent, and I’m trying to...
December 05, 2019
For the past several years, I have had the privilege of giving a sermon at...
December 03, 2019
Almost three years ago, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” as its 2016 word of the year,...
December 01, 2019
In Philosophical Fragments, 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard tells a lovely story about a powerful king...

November 2019

November 29, 2019
Today is Black Friday, the unfortunate beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Apparently in service...
November 27, 2019
Advent begins this coming Sunday. I was raised in a version of Christianity that had...
November 25, 2019
I have a Facebook acquaintance, a fellow graduate of St. John’s College, who posts five...
November 23, 2019
Over the past several years on my campus, events called “Difficult Dialogues” have regularly been...
November 21, 2019
I had the opportunity to spend a couple of hours with a young man named...
November 19, 2019
In the liturgical cycle, we are headed toward a new year that begins on the...
November 17, 2019
In my General Ethics class, my students and I have just finished a three week...
November 15, 2019
Next Monday, I will be starting the final unit of the semester with my General...
November 14, 2019
In a well-known and often-quoted passage from the Jewish scriptures, the prophet Micah asks a...
November 12, 2019
A strange story from Luke's gospel was the gospel for the day last Sunday. It...
November 10, 2019
In “Slander,” from her latest collection of essays, What Are We Doing Here?, Marilynne Robinson writes...
November 08, 2019
During a recent unit in my General Ethics class called “Does ethics have anything to...
November 06, 2019
I had a lovely lunch last week with one of my best and most valued...
November 04, 2019
I’m going out on a limb here—way out. I like time changes. This year Daylight...
November 03, 2019
“White evangelical Protestants (WEPs) are fully disrobed,” writes Michael Gerson, concluding that “the older generation...
November 01, 2019
Today is "All Saints Day," followed by "All Souls Day" tomorrow. I come from a hardcore...

October 2019

October 31, 2019
It’s Halloween!–one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends many...
October 29, 2019
One Sunday, toward the end of a particularly lively and deep seminar with my “Living...
October 27, 2019
Over the past several days, I posted a couple of essays engaging with the atheist...
October 24, 2019
Every once in a while--it seems like about once every six months or so--I post...
October 22, 2019
Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. This, promises...
October 20, 2019
This past week I started a unit in my General Ethics students called “Does God...
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