If we fail to make relevant distinctions, we fail to heed the real differences in the world, and are trying to navigate it blind to its...

I am a man, and although some say that men, being incapable of pregnancy, are not entitled to express opinions on the morality or the...

I believe that skepticism is called for in regard to the belief that UFOs are in some cases spacecraft from extraterrestrial...

What Election Fraud Saved Us From: A Fable President Trump’s crushing defeat of Joe Biden in November 2020 was far from surprising. His...

The late Richard Rorty flippantly said that the truth is whatever your peers let you get away with. Whether your peers let you get away...

1. Currently, the political establishment and its allies in the media and elsewhere are quick to dismiss views with which they...

Classical liberalism is equivalent to libertarianism, at least in its non-anarchic versions. The adjective “classical” became necessary...

Christian Naturalism: An Outline The following amounts to a précis of my book, The Material Image: Reconciling Modern Science and...

Thoughts on the dangers, real and imagined, of Artificial Intelligence I wrote this in response to a friend’s questions about articles on...

I am curious about a certain lack of curiosity. Why does the universe exist? In more dramatic terms, why is there something rather than...

God in the Hands of Angry Sinners Genesis 3: 1-13 1. Remember the old joke? Q. What did the preacher preach on today? A. Sin. Q. What did...

There are two kinds of philosophers: those who say that there are two kinds of philosophers, and those who don’t. Since I agree with the...

1 Advent 28 November 1999 St. George’s, Le Mars, Iowa Mark 13.24-37 “Keep awake!” Mark 13:37 Hurry Up and Wait! Having to come up with a...

1st Sunday After Christmas 29 December 2002 St. George’s Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa And the Word became flesh and lived among us…...

Third Sunday In Epiphany 26 January 2003 St. George’s Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa Mark 1.14-20 On A Mission From God One of the great...

Second Sunday in Lent 12 March 2006 Chaplaincy of St. George’s Orange City, Iowa Self-Denial “I am convinced that neither death, nor...

2nd Sunday of Easter 15 April 2007 Church of the Savior Orange City, Iowa John 20.19-31 “If you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven...

5 Fifth Sunday in Easter 24 April 2005 St. George’s Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa John 14.1-14 Don’t Lose Your Way Jesus is a wanted...

Seventh Sunday in Eastertide 12 May 2001 St. George’s Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa John 17.1-11 Where in the World is Jesus Christ?...

Trinity Sunday: First Sunday After Pentecost 6 June 1993 St. George's Episcopal Church Le Mars, Iowa Matthew 28:16-20 Doubting Disciples...