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But Who Are You?
While on sabbatical five years ago, a fellow Institute scholar and friend died unexpectedly. Conrad was a lovely, gentle man whom I had only known for a couple of months. He was a retired priest in...
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All Creatures Great and Small
On weekday mornings I try to start the day by reading the Psalms appointed for the morning in the daily lectionary. A couple of days ago on Friday morning as I squinted through bleary, sleep-filled...
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Wake Up!
I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to observe a colleague in class, something I get to do with junior, non-tenured faculty as a program director on a regular basis. The topic of the lecture...
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Soul and Body
Upon hearing that the high temperature for the next two days would be no more than thirty degrees, feeling with the wind chill like fifteen degrees, I was reminded a couple of weeks ago, first, that...
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Ubuntu
As we drove home from a lovely two-day celebration of our twenty-fifth anniversary, Jeanne and I were listening to NPR, as is our frequent custom when in the car. It was Nelson Mandela’s ninety-fifth...
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Redeeming the Time
“That’s so sweet!” my student said, reading the item on my office door. “How old was your son when he wrote that?” “He was in first grade,” I replied. “What grade is he in now?” “He’s working on his...
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Family Values?
I was angry with my father for a lot of reasons over the years, some justified and some not. But I don’t recall any time when I was more pissed at him than when I heard him say on one of his...
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Knowing the Unknowable
I just spent a week with over one hundred freshman exploring the familiar but challenging stories of Genesis and Exodus. I do this just about every year, but each time I’m in a different place and the...
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A Lenten Valentine
I don’t know whose idea it was for Valentine’s Day to fall on the first Sunday of Lent this year, but in a way it makes sense. I’m currently reading Rachel Kadish’s novel Tolstoy Lied; I started...
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Not Feeling It
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 After spending way too much time watching primary results on Super Tuesday evening, I spent some time the following morning (I guess that would...
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The Fruit of the Blackberry
A few years ago, Jeanne returned from a weekend with a friend in Vermont with a little plant in a box—a Vermont blackberry bush. It has been trying to take over our back yard ever since. It has also...
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