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This August will mark my seventh year of blogging, the last two and a half...

Last week Jeanne and I went with a friend to see the Elton John biopic...

Jeanne and I watched a documentary not long ago called “Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets...

For the past several years my upper-division (juniors and seniors) classes have included an ongoing...

At its best, faith is the overflow of gratitude, the attempt to live as if...

A disturbingly common mishap in recent Summer Olympic games has been the failure of U.S....

It is the happy life that asks more of us than we realize we have...

At the end of each academic year, I tend to reflect back on the past...

Anyone who reads this blog regularly or even occasionally knows that I love movies. Solidly...

It is Memorial Day weekend, a great time to honor those who have made sacrifices...

Every religion which does not confirm that God is hidden is not true. Blaise Pascal One...

Iris Murdoch was one of the philosophers whose work was front and center in my...

Today is my college's Commencement Day. I've been to more than thirty college graduation events,...

One of my prized possessions, purchased when  Jeanne and I on vacation last June in...

Last week, a Christianity Today article reported that "Half of Americans Say Evangelicals are Discriminated Against." www.christianitytoday.com

I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...

There is no greatness where there is no goodness, simplicity, or truth Leo Tolstoy Although Jeanne...

One of the stories that was emphasized regularly in the Baptist Sunday school of my...

As millions of others, I was saddened by the devastating news yesterday of the death...

During the last seminar of the semester in one of my classes this week, my...

According to the reading from John’s gospel at church a couple of days ago, one...

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty Anne Lamott In the lectionary, the Second...

During his Easter Sunday homily, my friend Mitch—the rector of the Episcopal church I attend—told...

“Now abide faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” These words...

Easter Sunday--the most triumphant day on the Christian liturgical calendar. According to New Testament scholar...

During the college basketball season, Jeanne and I frequently watch a replay of the Providence...

Some people can sleep anywhere. One of those people was a student in one of...

What is bothering me incessantly is the question of what Christianity really is, or indeed...

Today is Palm Sunday, one of the most dramatic days on the liturgical calendar. But...

“What’s the difference between chili con carne and chili con queso?” I ask my freshman...