As you outlanders might have noticed, the bloggers at this site who live in the upper Midwest have been musing out loud (it’s not

I’ve been trying to figure out which deaths count and which don’t—not in the eyes of God, of course, but in those of the American

Good Friday when I was young was a day for bargaining. Not just between the pulpit and my ear, as I tried to do the

It’s a challenge following Theresa Latini on this blog. Yesterday, again, she knocked one out of the park on a matter near and dear to

Theresa Latini stole my thunder yesterday with her wise post, “How to Live Well and Faithfully in the Midst of Institutional Upheaval.” I’m glad she

Last night I received a teaching award at my college–most surprisingly and not a little discomfiting, as the remarks below indicate. But an occasion to

A couple months ago, in commenting on Lincoln the movie and some arguments it had triggered, I promised to return to a similar controversy over

­­That would be the United States. The good-ol’ USA. The young nation born to offer (so says its Great Seal) a new order of the

I was going to write in sorrow or outrage or scolding critique about the shootings at Newtown, Connecticut a week ago today. But all of