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March 2024

March 17, 2024
Today is St. Patrick's Day, not my favorite holiday (as you'll see below). Portions of...
March 14, 2024
Truth isn’t sympathetic to our need for certainty or stability. Jared Enns, “The Bible for...
March 12, 2024
Yesterday I had a very encouraging conversation with an editor from a publishing company who...
March 10, 2024
Today's gospel gets us back to the basics. Sports fans old enough to remember the...
March 07, 2024
In the opening lines of Genesis we are told that “In the beginning . ....
March 05, 2024
Tomorrow is my birthday (#68)--the fact that my youngest son finds a way to travel...
March 03, 2024
Next week is my birthday week, an annual opportunity for me to consider how old...

February 2024

February 29, 2024
This has been a challenging week in class, not because of my students but because...
February 27, 2024
An alternative title for this essay might be “A Comedian Interprets the Parable of the...
February 25, 2024
Last week I introduced a bunch of honors sophomores to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's distinction between "Cheap...
February 22, 2024
The Gospel reading for last Sunday, the First Sunday of Lent, is the account of...
February 20, 2024
On this day after Presidents Day I'm thinking about a specific power that presidents uniquely...
February 18, 2024
Tomorrow is President's Day, which for all college professors means--as do all Monday holidays in...
February 15, 2024
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper. I cannot quite make...
February 13, 2024
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent (my least favorite liturgical season). As the...
February 11, 2024
For someone who is a dedicated college basketball fan and a rabid follower of the...
February 08, 2024
Last Monday's text in my sophomore Honors seminar, a course that spans literature, history, theology...
February 06, 2024
In one of the essays assigned for my honors colloquium on Michel de Montaigne this...
February 04, 2024
The other day upon returning from her early morning visit to the gym, the first...
February 01, 2024
The last time I was a member of a search committee for a new tenure...

January 2024

January 30, 2024
In my last post I wrote about being comfortable in my own skin as an...
January 28, 2024
A bit over a year ago at my brother-in-law’s wake, I spent several minutes chatting...
January 25, 2024
A former student who wrote for our campus student newspaper once asked me during an...
January 23, 2024
I have been told on occasion by readers of this blog that "Freelance Christianity" is...
January 21, 2024
When I first started this blog a bit over eleven years ago, I told Jeanne...
January 18, 2024
Last Sunday's lectionary reading from the Hebrew Scriptures is the story of God's call of...
January 16, 2024
In last few minutes of Franco Zefferelli's Jesus of Nazareth, Zerah pokes his head into the...
January 14, 2024
The building looked like the love child of a logic problem and a crossword puzzle....
January 11, 2024
In his 2014 book The Bible Tells Me So . . .” and The Sin...
January 09, 2024
A number of years ago, at the end of a presentation to fellow resident scholars...
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