The following is an essay I wrote for our Wittenberg University community. These are compiled on Wittenberg’s site and will be periodically shared here as well: “Presidential Communications” Wittenberg Community, I remember our nation’s Bicentennial. We lived in a new, planned community full of young families, where the centerpiece of […]
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The following is an essay I wrote for our Wittenberg University community. These are compiled on Wittenberg’s site and will be periodically shared here as well: “Presidential Communications” Wittenberg Community, June 19, 1865, twenty years after Wittenberg College was founded, news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached all the states […]
This month (May 2026) my third essay for the Buechner Review was published, “The Dawn Chorus: Hearing God’s Call.” It is a reflection on my own deliberations (and prayers) before answering the call to become Wittenberg University’s 16th President, one year ago. Frederick Buechner’s autobiographical spiritual reflections serve as a […]
U2 has dropped another great (IMHO) EP. The last was on Ash Wednesday and called, reasonably enough, “Days of Ash.” That EP is a powerful set of songs offering a critique of the news of today. Today, on Good Friday, they drop “Easter Lily.” With songs titles like “Scars,” “Resurrection […]
In late October 2016, I went to Nashville to become interim rector of St. B’s Episcopal Church. The first Sunday I served was All Souls Day and I chose to include in my sermon a reference to a song I had recently heard called, The Ghost of Johnny Cash. It […]
Last year I wrote a short little poem on Mack’s birthday. I shared it with my friend and award winning poet John Poch, now at Grace College in Indiana. (His latest book The Future of Love is out now and it is tremendous!) He replied with the suggestion that I […]
A sermon for Transfiguration Sunday 2026, leading us into Lent. Preached at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Springfield, Ohio. A lot happens on mountain tops in the Bible. We read time and again of figures who go, or often are sent, “up a high mountain.” It is on a mountain that […]
This is an entry in the “Acrostic Contemplations.” Nothing can separate us from the love of God. No thing. Nothing. It is right there in the Bible, Paul tells us so. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, […]
Below is my inauguration address. All of these speeches and things are being archived at the President’s website, but I thought there are likely some of my friends who only see Targuman.org. I am deeply grateful that my friend and colleague the Rev. Canon Dr. Hugh Page provided the Keynote […]
August 27, 2025 was my first Convocation as President of Wittenberg University. The tradition is for the new President to give the address and I was happy and honored to do so. Below is the text and you can view the video at YouTube. בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת […]