hope

I love the stars. Not as in “Dancing with . . .” or in Hollywood...

During his first speech as the new President-elect last Saturday evening, Joe Biden quoted lines...

My doctor says that I am his most boring patient, because there is never anything...

We’ve all done this, we bang and bang on the door of hope, and don’t...

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...

Just short of a year ago, I spent a Saturday morning listening to a lecture...

One of the few bright spots during the past months of COVID-19 seclusion and insanity...

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

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

I’ve been thinking a lot about end of life issues lately. Really. They seem to...

If you are looking for a new novel to read, may I recommend Emily St....

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

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

One of the central units in my General Ethics class is titled “Does ethics have...

In preparation for my next book project, a teaching memoir tentatively titled Nice Work If You...

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

I viewed Martin Doblmeier's documentary about Dorothy Day, "Revolution of the Heart," a few days...

During the early weeks of the semester in our “Apocalypse” seminar, my teaching colleague from...

The final unit in my General Ethics class that ended last week was Gun Violence....

My newest online publication at "Bearings Online," link below, reflects on the appropriateness of coronavirus...

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

The final week of the strangest academic semester of my life begins tomorrow. As I...

“Now abide faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” These words...

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty   Anne Lamott We are currently living...

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,...

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

Frank Tupper, an important Baptist theologian who argued that God is in control of very...