After a major stroke, neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor lost function in her left brain. But by taking a "step to the right," she found an unexpected blessing. Read more
After a major stroke, neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor lost function in her left brain. But by taking a "step to the right," she found an unexpected blessing. Read more
Jesus said 'Be ye therefore perfect." Wouldn't it have been more sensible for him to say "Be ye therefore slightly improved"? Read more
Reza Aslan is a Muslim; I am a Christian. But we share something fundamentally important in common--a common understanding of what faith is: 'If you believe our experience of the world goes beyond just the material realm, that there is something beyond, that there is a transcendent presence that one can commune with, then it is only natural to want to reach out to this transcendent presence, to want to experience it in some way. This is the ineffable experience of faith.' Read more
Every writer knows that writing is an inefficient and non-economical process. One never knows when or if something one throws out for public consumption will hit pay dirt and actually have an impact. I was happy to be reminded by last Sunday’s gospel that I’m not the only person who spends a lot of time in an inefficient enterprise. Read more
Human love in the purest forms we can know it, wife and husband, parent and child, has the aura and the immutability of the sacred. Today, on Jeanne's and my twenty-ninth anniversary, I'm glad to say that I know this statement from Marilynne Robinson to be true. Read more
Your assignment is to name the eighteen most important figures in the Western liberal arts tradition (philosophy, theology, literature, music/art, history, science). Eighteen: no more, no less! Who is in? Who is out? Read more
A fresh look at my world without God-tinted lenses reveals that suffering and violence are inextricably tangled with beauty. The waves on the ocean are no less beautiful because we know that sometimes people are drowned in them. A practicing atheist recommends a certain Stoic embrace of reality, rather than a childish affirmation of the parts I like and an impotent resistance to those I don’t. Read more
In today's gospel, Jesus says that his yoke is easy and his burden is light. We all think we know what he means. But there is another interpretation that opens new possibilities . . . Read more
Last fall I had the opportunity to give the sermon on stewardship Sunday at my Episcopal church, a concept that in many circles is close to a four-letter word. Here's what I said. Read more
Donald Trump reminded us last weekend of his history with professional wrestling. Well, Mister President, meet your wrestling nemesis: The Progressive Liberal! Read more
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