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May 2013

May 26, 2013
The Bible is filled with rocks. The patriarchs pile rocks up every time they want...
May 23, 2013
Summer's almost here--enjoy this one from last October!
May 14, 2013
A reblog from October for all of the bibliophiles out there!
May 12, 2013
It has been a beautiful spring in Rhode Island (so far). After more than a...
May 07, 2013
A repeat from last September--enjoy!
May 03, 2013
Add Yesterday the little state of Rhode Island, my home for the past eighteen years,...
May 02, 2013
My text to Jeanne at 6:37 AM, Thursday April 25: This is promising to be...

April 2013

April 30, 2013
April 28, 2013
Twenty years ago I encountered a remarkable woman; over the past two days we hosted...
April 25, 2013
I got into a bad habit a few years ago that I thought I had...
April 24, 2013
It's the end of the semester--students are looking for help!
April 22, 2013
A quick reflection on this past week in New England. Returning from the cafeteria to...
April 18, 2013
On one of my family’s summer western treks, we pulled into a Phillips 66 station...
April 16, 2013
Please pray for those affected by the tragedy in Boston yesterday.
April 10, 2013
I went to Minnesota five years ago to begin sabbatical in the middle of January....
April 09, 2013
Still under construction--but growing!
April 04, 2013
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” writes Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Self-Reliance.”...

March 2013

March 21, 2013
During my senior year in high school, I joined a record club for the first...
March 19, 2013
March 14, 2013
While on sabbatical five years ago, a fellow Institute scholar and friend died unexpectedly.  Conrad...
March 12, 2013
March 08, 2013

February 2013

February 26, 2013
February 10, 2013
In one of the host of recent academic books written by an atheist about religion...

January 2013

January 09, 2013
Three days after the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, an...
January 03, 2013
Several years ago during my four-year stint as chair of the Providence College philosophy department,...

December 2012

December 23, 2012
Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...

November 2012

November 08, 2012
My childhood was filled with unusual characters, all products of my father’s fertile imagination. A...
November 04, 2012
Every year, between Pentecost and the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the lectionary takes us through week...
November 01, 2012
I spent the Spring 2009 semester on sabbatical as a Resident Scholar at the Collegeville Institute for...
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