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May 2024

May 16, 2024
This coming Sunday is Pentecost, a celebration on when the Holy Spirit descended on a...
May 14, 2024
As I begin work on the final version of my forthcoming book A Year of...
May 12, 2024
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are coming soon! On this Ascension Sunday I am...
May 10, 2024
Sunday is Mother's Day--it also happens to be Ascension Sunday, so this weekend gets a...
May 09, 2024
Here's an essay from late April 2015 that celebrates all things spring--flowers, trees, and mulch--with...
May 06, 2024
Today's "golden oldie" was first posted here in early 2013, just a few months after...
May 04, 2024
The final meeting of my honors colloquium on Michel de Montaigne was last Thursday. It...
May 02, 2024
First, some big news! Yesterday I signed a contract for my book A Year of...

April 2024

April 30, 2024
In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word was made flesh,...
April 28, 2024
In an interview with CNN a few Easters ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said this about...
April 25, 2024
A colleague from the history department with whom I have team-taught several times over the...
April 23, 2024
One day several years ago, Jeanne said “I want a fish.” This was a rather...
April 21, 2024
A few days ago at an important faculty/administration meeting on campus, I found myself sitting...
April 19, 2024
It occurred to me a couple of days ago that the spring semester is ending...
April 17, 2024
RMy baseline criterion for whether a particular class has gone well is to answer the...
April 15, 2024
Today is tax day. As the familiar saying goes, just like death taxes are inevitable....
April 14, 2024
Voltaire once wrote that if God did not exist, we would have to invent him....
April 11, 2024
The list of authors whose work has been most influential on my spiritual growth over...
April 09, 2024
I learned a couple of days ago on "Hidden Brain," one of my favorite podcasts,...
April 07, 2024
Jeanne and I spent Thursday through Saturday of Holy Week in a movie theater. We...
April 04, 2024
Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight; Angels, descending, bring...
April 02, 2024
It is interesting, perhaps fitting, that the first class in my team-taught "Apocalypse: colloquium after...

March 2024

March 31, 2024
Easter Sunday--the most triumphant day on the Christian liturgical calendar. According to New Testament scholar...
March 30, 2024
A few years ago in a course that I was team-teaching with two other colleagues,...
March 29, 2024
Many Christmas Eves ago, Jeanne, our youngest son Justin, and I were invited to share...
March 28, 2024
HOly WeekSome people can sleep anywhere. One of those people was a student in one...
March 26, 2024
April is going to be Marilynne Robinson month for me. In the team taught interdisciplinary...
March 24, 2024
The Palm Sunday celebration in a liturgical Christian church can be both confusing and jarring....
March 21, 2024
In my various courses this semester we have spent a good deal of time developing...
March 19, 2024
In her award-winning trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell, the consigliere and fixer for Henry...
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