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May 2018

May 28, 2018
It is Memorial Day, a great day to honor those who have made sacrifices over...
May 27, 2018
On a very sad morning almost ten years ago, my favorite vehicle ever was towed out...
May 24, 2018
In “Slander,” from her latest collection of essays, What Are We Doing Here?, Marilynne Robinson...
May 22, 2018
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough was the speaker at Providence College's Commencement exercises...
May 20, 2018
Today is my college's  Commencement--it is also Pentecost Sunday. In keeping with my attraction to...
May 19, 2018
So here we are again. Another school shooting, immediately followed by another avalanche of "our...
May 18, 2018
May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships,...
May 17, 2018
Swirling around the dedication of the new United States embassy in Jerusalem this week have...
May 15, 2018
Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again. “The Sound of Silence”...
May 13, 2018
I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...
May 10, 2018
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant...
May 08, 2018
What is the best way to get the attention of a bunch of Episcopalians? I...
May 06, 2018
Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion ....
May 03, 2018
I was invited earlier this week by an online publication that I write for occasionally...
May 01, 2018
So here we are, a year and a half since Donald Trump was elected President....

April 2018

April 26, 2018
In my General Ethics class, my students and I have just finished a three week...
April 24, 2018
I come from a hardcore Protestant world, a world in which we did not do...
April 22, 2018
Tomorrow is "Good Shepherd Sunday," including the 23rd Psalm--a text so familiar that it is...
April 19, 2018
Not long ago, The Atlantic published an article by Emma Green entitled “Democrats Have a...
April 17, 2018
In the aftermath of Easter, Christians often enjoy retelling various stories about Jesus from the...
April 15, 2018
A recent edition of The New Yorker had a timely cartoon on the back page....
April 12, 2018
I drove past a billboard not long ago that raised my blood pressure a bit....
April 10, 2018
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shakespeare, King Lear This week,...
April 08, 2018
A couple of days ago, the following from Franklin Graham came across my Twitter feed:...
April 05, 2018
We should read the New Testament as saying that how we treat each other on...
April 03, 2018
A Benedictine monk once told me that Darwin has taught us more about God than...
April 01, 2018
God is not an insurance agent. H. G. Wells During Rick Pitino’s tenure as the...

March 2018

March 29, 2018
"Could you not stay awake with me one hour?" Jesus asked his disciples. It's a...
March 27, 2018
Holy Week is upon us once again—as good a time as any to step back...
March 25, 2018
At its best, faith is the overflow of gratitude, the attempt to live as if...
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