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One Sunday, toward the end of a particularly lively and deep seminar with my “Living...

As a philosophy professor, I have the opportunity in just about every class to investigate,...

Perhaps a novel whose main character is the squadron leader for World War II bombing...

Today is Blessing of the Animals Sunday, which this year is bittersweet for me. My...

The first debate between the 2020 presidential nominees is this evening. It will come as...

An item popped up on my Facebook news feed not long ago reporting that Harper...

This past weekend, Jeanne and I, along with our two sons and our daughter-in-law, travelled...

I, as many people of faith, have often wondered why the divine is so apparently...

Jeanne and I celebrated our 32nd anniversary in July—the gifts we gave each other are...

Iris Murdoch is one of my favorite philosophers and novelists, but I seldom get to...

In 1980, famed science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote the following in an opinion piece for...

Classes begin at my college next Monday, and the stress levels among the faculty (and...

Every once in a while, our lives are blessed with a person who uniquely and...

This month marks the eighth anniversary of this blog. It started on Wordpress as an...

My first teaching position was at a small university in Memphis. My department was the...

I make no secret, on this blog or in person, of my love for Canada....

Classes begin on my campus in three weeks. That, in the middle of a pandemic,...

My youngest son was always the inquisitive sort, the kind of kid who, from the...

When we first moved to Rhode Island in the middle 1990s for my new teaching...

Last Wednesday, after three delays (one our fault, two their fault), our house got a...

A very good friend of mine, a man whom I only knew for the final...

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...