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Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Saturday, December 7, 2019

Gracias, señora Orza

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Estimada Sra. Orza, One day when I was in middle school in New York you said to me “You’re good at languages. You should go to Middlebu...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Reason For Hope

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Nearly every spring term I teach a class called “Theology and Philosophy in Dialogue.” I inherited the title and the course description whe...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

How I Write - A Quick Reply To A Young Writer

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This morning I came to the office to find an email from a student at another college. They were writing to ask advice for a young writer. I...
Friday, March 3, 2017

What's In A Name? Almanzo Wilder and El Manzoor

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In her novel Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder tells why her husband was named Almanzo .  It's a story that she learned ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

I Want My Religion To Be A Garden

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Today my ecology advisee and I met while walking across our campus. Walking and talking, we ignored the formalities of her writing, and att...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Of Men and of Angels

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"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but I have not love, then I have become a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal....
Monday, July 7, 2014

Protecting Borders, Loving Neighbors, And The Economics Of Child Migration

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Time Magazine reported last week that President Obama is seeking 2 billion dollars to reduce the flow of young illegal immigrants across t...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Theodicy and Phenomenal Curiosity

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I have, right now, a terrific headache.   It is a long, spidery headache whose bulging, raspy abdomen sits over my eyes and whose long fore...
Monday, May 6, 2013

What Jesus Didn't Say

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My latest contribution to Sojourners ' "God's Politics" blog. Some reflections on the surprising encounter between Jesu...

Pornography and Prayer

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A recent Wall Street Journal article talks about the way online pornography quickly develops new neural pathways that are difficult to und...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Bicycles, Handguns, and Cameras

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Get Off My Hood! I just read a post on Facebook about a bicyclist in my town who was struck by someone driving a pickup truck.  The drive...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

My Two-bit Prayers

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Today I sent a a picture of a quarter to my daughter's mobile phone. Since she went off to college two years ago, I have saved for he...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Scripture's Trajectory: You Are Known; Be Holy

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Everybody interprets texts.  Interpreting texts means, among other things, determining the trajectory of the texts.  Where are they coming ...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Surveillance and Virtue

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The recent news that a no-fly zone was enacted over the site of the Exxon tar sands pipeline spill in Arkansas is in line with the movemen...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

Steinbeck and Greene On Respect For Enemies

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These two passages seem like they ought to be put together somehow.  The first is from Steinbeck, the second is from Greene. Although the f...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Try To Understand One Another

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“Try to understand one another.   You can’t hate men if you know them.”   John Steinbeck, From his journal, and written about his ficti...