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August 2024

August 04, 2024
Organized religion often is a source of packaged answers and comfortable solutions to important questions...
August 02, 2024
He lived over two millennia ago, and as far as we know he never wrote...

July 2024

July 30, 2024
It often is a surprise to those who know that I am a college professor...
July 27, 2024
Today's gospel is the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand, one of the few...
July 26, 2024
It's been a crazy week, hasn't it? I have deliberately avoided going political on this...
July 22, 2024
All of us live in a world filled with words. For academics, words are the...
July 21, 2024
I've spent significant time over the past fourteen or fifteen months immersed in the Bible....
July 19, 2024
On Monday I will be sending the final manuscript of A Year of Faith and Philosophy:...
July 17, 2024
Thirty-six years ago today, two early thirty-somethings stood in front of their four parents and...
July 16, 2024
Regular readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of “The Chosen,”...
July 14, 2024
Today is the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost; the gospel reading from Mark tells the story...
July 11, 2024
I ran an informal experiment on Facebook the other day, the point of which was...
July 09, 2024
The end of my revision of my book A Year of Faith and Philosophy is in...
July 07, 2024
I'm back! After a two week break it's good to be blogging again. As I continue...

June 2024

June 20, 2024
Jeanne and I went to the Auschwitz exhibition in Boston yesterday--it's there for the rest...
June 18, 2024
In the honors interdisciplinary program I teach in, my colleagues and I have chosen over...
June 16, 2024
Today is the Fifth Sunday after Easter in the lectionary, including a number of familiar...
June 13, 2024
A shorter version of this essay from Fall 2021 will be the entry for the...
June 11, 2024
As I work on putting the final "Ordinary Time" chapter of my book A Year of...
June 08, 2024
Tomorrow is Jeanne's birthday, and it's a big one! As she's been telling everyone, she...
June 06, 2024
As I continue to put my new book, A Year of Faith and Philosophy: Exploring Spiritual...
June 04, 2024
Two years ago this week I had a fall riding my bike that resulted in,...
June 02, 2024
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each...

May 2024

May 31, 2024
As I work through my book under contract getting it into shape for the editor...
May 29, 2024
The next time someone says something like “These are $130 headphones that I bought for...
May 26, 2024
Memorial Day is a day for solemn remembrance. Memorial Day is also a day when...
May 26, 2024
Next to Lent, the part of the liturgical calendar that I have always found least...
May 23, 2024
I am working my way through my book A Year of Faith and Philosophy making revisions,...
May 21, 2024
Even though summer doesn’t officially begin for another month or so, for a college professor...
May 19, 2024
Two year ago I had the privilege of giving the Pentecost Sunday sermon at the...
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