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November 2023

November 05, 2023
In the wee hours of this morning, the time changed from Daylight Saving Time to...
November 02, 2023
By all measures, this has already been a successful sabbatical (there are still two more...

October 2023

October 31, 2023
If God is both all-good and all-powerful, why is there so much evil in the...
October 29, 2023
It’s Halloween week!!–one of my least favorite holidays of the year. I know that offends...
October 26, 2023
A number of years ago, during the early years of President Barack Obama's first term,...
October 24, 2023
My two sabbatical book projects have, without my explicitly planning it, turned out to be...
October 22, 2023
Last weekend Jeanne and I made a quick trip to Minneapolis to attend the annual...
October 19, 2023
Today around lunchtime there will be a reception on campus celebrating the tenth anniversary of...
October 17, 2023
In our “Faith and Doubt” colloquium last spring, my Dominican priest colleague and I filled...
October 15, 2023
The last text of the Spring 2021 semester--the last Covid-19 affected semester on my campus--in...
October 12, 2023
This summer's blockbuster movie "Oppenheimer" has caused me to return to matters that used to...
October 10, 2023
It was just beginning to turn dimly light when I began to wake up. I...
October 07, 2023
The Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus is the lectionary reading from the Jewish...
October 05, 2023
For most sports fans, this time of year is exciting. The baseball playoffs just started,...
October 03, 2023
Today is the third day of October, and that's a very good thing. I took...
October 01, 2023
My two sons have never thought that I look like a philosopher. This has been...

September 2023

September 28, 2023
I saw a bumper sticker once that said “So many books, so little time.” I...
September 26, 2023
Jeanne and I spent a couple of lovely days last week with friends in Port...
September 23, 2023
Early in my career at the college, during a public forum on my campus intended...
September 20, 2023
As I prepared to be a panelist at the “With Mutual Respect” event, I unexpectedly...
September 19, 2023
Except for those who deliberately and religiously stay disconnected from current events and those who...
September 17, 2023
Exactly one year ago, an important event in which I was both involved with planning...
September 15, 2023
Marilynne Robinson writes that “I remember once, as a child, walking into a library, looking...
September 13, 2023
I learned many things from my good friend Marsue, who was the rector of the...
September 11, 2023
Everyone beyond a certain age can remember clearly what they were doing twenty-two years ago...
September 10, 2023
What happens when a perfectly good virtue gets turned into not only the most important virtue,...
September 08, 2023
Is it ever right to hold a grudge? Is resentment or unforgiveness ever justified? These...
September 06, 2023
In an interview with CNN a few years ago, Barbara Brown Taylor said something that...
September 04, 2023
What follows is a story from my current book project--Nice Work if You Can Get...
September 03, 2023
A couple of years ago, I was interviewed in my office by a reporter from The...
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