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June 2022

June 22, 2022
Texts: Genesis 24.1-27 – Abraham’s servant departing to find Rebekah at the well for Isaac...
June 15, 2022
Transformative Travel The next few blogs will be coming from the United Kingdom, where my...
June 12, 2022
I’ve written before about what I think is disastrous in contemporary Russian Orthodox ecclesiology, or...
June 08, 2022
I offer today a thought or two about a theological controversy I’ve gotten myself involved...
June 04, 2022
Does tragedy serve a moral purpose?  As my state carries on with funerals this week...
June 01, 2022
The Prodigal Son as a Parable of the Trinity A reader of my book Leaving...

May 2022

May 28, 2022
What is a church? Let’s consider it specifically: the particular communities where many of us...
May 25, 2022
Yesterday afternoon, in the final celebratory days before long awaited summer vacation in south Texas,...
May 18, 2022
“I have lived under the impression that a man’s purpose is known only to God.”...
May 13, 2022
Hugh of Saint Victor was a priest from 12th century Germany. He joined the Abbey...
May 11, 2022
Last week I promised to re-open the elephant-sized door and discuss Last Judgment. I'll frame...
May 07, 2022
Last week, in a blog about faith, I wrote the following: If we decouple self-awareness...
May 04, 2022
Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down...

April 2022

April 30, 2022
Some time ago I had a student in my office who was having a crisis...
April 27, 2022
At Home by the Water Rivers make good boundaries. Not so much for keeping unwanted...
April 22, 2022
Warning, readers: today’s column walks through some weedy speculative philosophy. To quote Lemony Snicket, you should...
April 20, 2022
“Growth in holiness and ascent from grace to grace does not occur automatically, but actively…...
April 16, 2022
As Easter approaches in western Christendom, I find myself asking a very basic question of...
April 13, 2022
Going Up In Mark 11, Jesus goes up to Jerusalem. It’s odd: the text repeats...
April 08, 2022
On the eve of Holy Week, I’m noticing the ho-hum way Mark’s triumphal entry account...
April 06, 2022
The most mysterious of all the church fathers is a man whose identity we only...
April 02, 2022
To be a believer, for Saint Paul, is to be part of a family formed...

March 2022

March 30, 2022
Do Dogs Go To Heaven? Last week I received a very serious and very sad...
March 26, 2022
"At Plainsong Farm, God is remaking Christianity. And we get to be part of that."...
March 23, 2022
The Humiliation of the Son of God “What kind of descent into humiliation is that?”...
March 19, 2022
“But I am struggling to return from this far country by the road he has...
March 16, 2022
“The world of angels occupies in creation a place which makes it impossible to neglect...
March 12, 2022
Why does God give us language? That may not be a question you’ve ever wondered...
March 09, 2022
It’s easy to trust the God of light. I am learning to trust the God...
March 04, 2022
I wrote earlier about the Transfiguration of Christ as an unveiling of what God experiences...
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