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April 2019

April 12, 2019
“What’s the difference between chili con carne and chili con queso?” I ask my freshman...
April 10, 2019
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper. I cannot quite make...
April 06, 2019
Over the past several years, I have found myself in frequent conversations with conservative Christians,...
April 05, 2019
The Bible is filled with rocks. The patriarchs pile rocks up every time they want...
April 03, 2019
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy...
April 01, 2019
IT’S APRIL FOOLS' DAY–A PERFECT TIME FOR SOME IRREVERENCE! One of my unexpected reading delights...

March 2019

March 30, 2019
Last Saturday, Jeanne was out of town for work, and I had a choice to...
March 27, 2019
Today's Psalm invited us to go to the mountain of the Lord–which reminded me of...
March 26, 2019
Once many years ago, a couple I was close friends with was having marital problems....
March 24, 2019
There are several contemporary writers on spiritual issues and matters of faith whose work I...
March 21, 2019
The beautiful Ruane Center for the Humanities on our campus opened in the Fall of 2013,...
March 19, 2019
Not long ago, I found myself involved behind the scenes in a squabble between the...
March 17, 2019
If you think you understand it, it is not God.  Soren Kierkegaard In Marilynne Robinson’s...
March 13, 2019
Twenty-five years ago last month, I interviewed at Providence College for a tenure-track position in...
March 11, 2019
I love the cycle of the liturgical year, the anticipation of Advent, the joy of...
March 10, 2019
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence...
March 08, 2019
Last year, for the first time since 1945, Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day fell on...
March 06, 2019
Today is my birthday, so I ask for your indulgence. Our culture tends to assume...
March 05, 2019
A Jewish friend of mine told me a number of years ago that Judaism is...
March 03, 2019
Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12 In his...

February 2019

February 28, 2019
On the recommendation of one of my colleagues, I recently read Alexander Waugh’s The House of...
February 26, 2019
As we drove home from a lovely two-day celebration of our twenty-fifth anniversary several years...
February 24, 2019
I have the privilege of giving the homily this morning at Trinity Episcopal Church in...
February 21, 2019
Valentine's Day last week marked the first anniversary of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas...
February 19, 2019
The gospel reading for last Sunday was Luke's abbreviated version of the Beatitudes. It is a...
February 17, 2019
I recently read the following observations: They weren’t such bad fellows. He had mixed with...
February 14, 2019
Not long ago, Jeanne and I had dinner with Beverley and Ed, two Long Island...
February 12, 2019
In his lovely little book Wishful Thinking, Frederick Buechner suggests that what we often dismiss as...
February 10, 2019
Several weeks into the new year, I am for the first time getting to teach...
February 06, 2019
I have been accused frequently over the past several weeks by commenters on my blog...
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