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December 2018

December 06, 2018
I recently had a brief, unproductive exchange in the comment section of this blog with...
December 04, 2018
Just when you thought you had heard and read it all . . . "If...
December 02, 2018
Each Advent for the past eight years, I have had the privilege of giving a...

November 2018

November 29, 2018
As we approach the Advent and Christmas seasons, I am in a forward-looking and hopeful...
November 27, 2018
Despite my consistent self-description as a “person of faith,” I have been accused occasionally over...
November 25, 2018
In the six-plus years that I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve occasionally been asked what...
November 23, 2018
Today is Black Friday, the unfortunate beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Apparently in service...
November 21, 2018
In early 1980, Isaac Asimov wrote something in a Newsweek article that has been making the rounds on...
November 20, 2018
Today is my youngest son Justin's thirty-seventh birthday. If that's not enough to make me...
November 18, 2018
I was a stranger, and you welcomed me. Matthew 25:35 Over the past couple of weeks...
November 15, 2018
The stereotype of the Type A personality has become an entrenched part of cultural lore....
November 13, 2018
One of my favorite features of liturgical worship is encountering familiar and favorite texts during...
November 11, 2018
I began Election Day last Tuesday at the gym, riding the stationary bike for an...
November 09, 2018
Thanks to the caravan of refugees moving north, President Trump's choice to stoke up fears...
November 06, 2018
If everybody is your neighbor, then nobody is. Rod Dreher Next semester, a colleague and...
November 04, 2018
A couple of months ago, Jeanne and I saw "Won't You Be My Neighbor?", the...
November 02, 2018
Last week, my blog post about what atheists and persons of faith can agree on...

October 2018

October 31, 2018
One Sunday, toward the end of a particularly lively and deep seminar with my “Living...
October 30, 2018
Tomorrow is Halloween!–one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends...
October 28, 2018
The first lectionary reading at church the past three Sundays have been from one of...
October 25, 2018
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 Another week, another bunch of...
October 23, 2018
Every once in a while someone posts a comment on my blog that reminds me...
October 21, 2018
About a month ago I received an email from my friend Marsue, brief and to...
October 18, 2018
If we remembered that water takes its color from the vessel containing it, we would...
October 16, 2018
Dear Dr. Morgan: I’m writing to let you know that I won’t be in class...
October 14, 2018
About half way through the 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin...
October 11, 2018
Autumn is my favorite season, and October is my favorite month. This is not surprising...
October 09, 2018
According to the gospel accounts, Jesus had little regard for traditional honorifics, titles, or the...
October 07, 2018
It's been a rough couple of months at our house, as two members of the...
October 05, 2018
One of my many fond memories of my sons’ youth was our early Saturday morning...
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