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January 2024

January 07, 2024
The gospel lectionary reading for the First Sunday of Epiphay traditionally is one version of...
January 05, 2024
The Feast of the Epiphany is tomorrow, January 6. Let's get a 24-hour headstart by...
January 04, 2024
Three years ago this coming Saturday, I was sitting in the recliner in our little...
January 02, 2024
My first post of the New Year on this blog often goes in the direction...

December 2023

December 31, 2023
So here we are at the end of yet another year. Kate Bowler, who all...
December 28, 2023
When considering the familiar stories of the Christmas season, we often forget that some of...
December 26, 2023
What would you call a friend who is as unpredictable as the weather, who shows...
December 24, 2023
Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck,...
December 21, 2023
For many Christians attuned to the liturgical year, thoughts turn toward Mary during the final...
December 18, 2023
Regular readers of this blog know how obsessed Jeanne and I are with our corgi...
December 17, 2023
During Advent season, John the Baptist gets a lot of play. This makes sense, since...
December 14, 2023
There is a saying attributed to Saint Francis that I have heard frequently in more...
December 12, 2023
Two of the contemporary authors whose insights on faith and spirituality challenge me the most...
December 10, 2023
I am currently starting the process of finding a literary agent for the teaching memoir...
December 08, 2023
I have taught philosophy in Catholic higher education for more that thirty years as a...
December 05, 2023
I was on retreat when I wrote this, a fitting capstone to my sabbatical that...
December 05, 2023
Last Thursday was Saint Andrew's Day; I was reminded beause my Scottish friend Craig posted...
December 03, 2023
In Philosophical Fragments, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard tells a lovely story about a powerful king who...

November 2023

November 30, 2023
I am retreat this week at Ender's Island south of Mystic, CT. So far my...
November 28, 2023
Just when you thought you had heard and read it all . . . "If...
November 26, 2023
The last Sunday before Advent and the beginning of a new liturgical calendar year is...
November 24, 2023
Today is Black Friday, the unfortunate beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Apparently in service...
November 22, 2023
Simone Weil once observed in a notebook entry that “the stories of miracles complicate everything.”...
November 20, 2023
Today is my youngest son's 42nd birthday--which makes me feel exceptionally old! I always tell...
November 19, 2023
In an interesting confluence, today's lectionary Psalm--Psalm 90--plays an important role in the final section...
November 16, 2023
Commenting on a new blog essay that I wrote while on retreat last summer, a...
November 14, 2023
Last Thursday I posted my second recent essay revisiting the problem of evil, arguing that...
November 12, 2023
Regular readers of this blog know that I am currently thinking through an old issue--the...
November 09, 2023
In the most recent episode of their podcast “The Bible for Normal People,” Pete Enns...
November 07, 2023
One of the speakers at the Evolving Faith 2023 conference that Jeanne and I attended...
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