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This morning I have the privilege of giving the sermon at Trinity Episcopal Church in...

Two summers ago, Jeanne and I took our first honest-to-God vacation in our thirty-plus years...

Teaching for twenty-five years in an interdisciplinary program with colleagues from a multitude of disciplines...

During the past month, in the context of protests for racial justice and police reform...

Over the years, a typical scenario has unfolded when I meet someone for the first...

It’s Jeanne’s birthday today! It is my blog custom on her birthday to post a...

Pentecost celebrates one of the high points in the Christian liturgical calendar, the coming of...

I recently finished reading Hilary Mantel’s long-awaited The Mirror and the Light, the final entry...

Under normal circumstances, my college’s Commencement exercises would be taking place this morning, with thousands...

The New Testament reading in today's lectionary line-up is the stoning of Stephen from the...

In the interdisciplinary program I teach in and used to direct, the first semester faculty...

As horrific and tragic as most Covid-19 stories are, every once in a while these...

I am not a complainer by nature. My wife, my family, and my friends would...

My youngest son was born in 1981 and grew up as Americans began, for the...

Several years ago, just in time for the Christmas holiday season, a new book by Sarah...

With Palm Sunday begins what will be the strangest Holy Week of my lifetime. The...

Last Sunday was the Fifth Sunday of Lent; we are heading directly for Palm Sunday,...

My friend Mitch, who is the priest-in-charge at the Episcopal church I attend, has asked...

Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight; Angels, descending, bring...

Today is my oldest son Caleb’s 41st birthday. He wears it well. When my daughter-in-law...

If there ever was a time when Jesus’ suggestion that we should “not worry about...

Sports fans old enough to remember the 70s and 80s will recall that a regular...

Although I read all the time--I once told my ophthalmologist that that I read for...

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?" Paul McCartney,...

Today is the First Sunday of Lent; the gospel traditionally is a version of Jesus'...

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to yourself. Michel...

My tattoo-artist oldest son reported in a phone conversation the other day that one of...

My youngest son, Justin, has a remarkable memory--for, as he puts it, "totally useless facts."...

Human love in the purest forms we can know it, wife and husband, parent and...

In my life-long spiritual journey, the decade of my twenties was the charismatic decade. No,...