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I have been accused frequently over the past several weeks by commenters on my blog...

We ought not to hide from ourselves that Nazi Germany is a mirror for all...

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

I recently had a brief, unproductive exchange in the comment section of this blog with...

In early 1980, Isaac Asimov wrote something in a Newsweek article that has been making the rounds on...

If everybody is your neighbor, then nobody is. Rod Dreher Next semester, a colleague and...

Ian McEwan's The Children Act is the story of Fiona Maye, an experienced and highly respected family...

Two years ago, the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 fell on a Sunday. The priest of...

At the beginning of a seminar on the books of Exodus and Job from the...

One of my favorite staff writers for The New Yorker is Rebecca Mead; she’s been...

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

We are not simply made by God—we are made of God  Julian of Norwich I...

Although the name of this blog is “Freelance Christianity,” and it is published on Patheos’...

A couple of years ago, my college celebrated its centennial. For Jeanne and me, the...

On our collective natal day, I offer the following–shamelessly stolen from The Onion–for your Independence...

Jeanne and I recently had the opportunity to see a local community theater’s production of...

A question that is almost guaranteed to start an argument in some circles goes to...

Atheism is a purification Simone Weil Former President Obama loved to quote a hopeful statement from...

Swirling around the dedication of the new United States embassy in Jerusalem this week have...

I was invited earlier this week by an online publication that I write for occasionally...

In my General Ethics class, my students and I have just finished a three week...

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shakespeare, King Lear This week,...

We should read the New Testament as saying that how we treat each other on...

God is not an insurance agent. H. G. Wells During Rick Pitino’s tenure as the...

Any caring human being asks the question What is the right thing to do? on...

During the last third of the semester in my General Ethics class this semester, we...

A little over a year ago, as I dressed after working out, I had a...

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

In J. M. Coetzee’s strange and fascinating novel The Childhood of Jesus, the precocious child...

Exactly three years ago, on the morning of Super Bowl 49, I wrote a blog...