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I spend a lot of time on this blog advocating for hope, for balance, for...

In a recent interview, Union Theological Seminary president Serene Jones said that "If you really...

During the past week, I have observed two people get into trouble on Facebook for...

I realized this morning that exactly seven years ago, the beautiful humanities building on our...

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

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

Iris Murdoch was one of the philosophers whose work was front and center in my...

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

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

Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree, and there shall...

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

Former President Obama loved to quote a hopeful statement from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:...

Why do intelligent people believe lies that are easily exposed as lies? Why do intelligent...

On Facebook a couple of days ago, I posted this: It's times like these that...

I am currently in the middle of reading Sue Monk Kidd’s new novel, The Book...

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

Memorial Day is a day for solemn remembrance, a time that this year must also...

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

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

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

Lead on King Eternal, the day of march has come Henceforth in fields of conquest Thy...

There is something appropriate about teaching a course named “Apocalypse” in the middle of world...

The only way I can get through the tedium of working out on an aerobic...

The other day somebody wrote on Twitter that “President Trump is the best president in...

Today, the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump begins in earnest. As we...

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

In final preparation for the spring semester that will begin in ten days, I am...

This Christmas season seems more dissonant than most, with violence across the globe, an impeachment...

I have taught philosophy in Catholic higher education for twenty-eight years as a non-Catholic. Although...

For the past several years, I have had the privilege of giving a sermon at...