FEATURED: A Professor Takes to the Rails
ON SOREN KIERKEGAARD:
Kierkegaard and Purity of Heart
Kierkegaard and Crowd Christianity
The Divided Soul: A Kierkegaardian Exploration (Wipf & Stock, 2009)
The Wisdom of Kierkegaard: A Collection of Quotations on Faith and Life (Wipf & Stock, 2009)
EXISTENTIAL APOLOGETICS:
Existential Apologetics: A Survey
Need As a Reason to Believe in God
Existential Reasons for Belief in God: A Defense of Desires and Emotions for Faith (IVP Academic, 2011)
ON RACE:
Racial Microaggressions and Whiteness on Christian Campuses: Making the Invisible Visible
Becoming Aware of My Whiteness by Sophie Clarke
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo A Review
Black and Wild, Like a Bear: Police Brutality and Moral Perception
Race and Justice: Quotations by Black and Brown Americans on Their Situation
"I Can No Longer Keep Quiet" by AJ as told to Cliff Williams
Interview on YouTube on The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian
BOOKS:
The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian: Making Racial Equity a Priority, 2021
ON DEATH AND THE MEANING OF LIFE:
The Denial of Death: Ernest Becker
Chasing the Wind: A Dialogue on Meaning and Illusion
"I Am on Hospice, Dying" by LeAnn Michelle Johns
Blog on death and the meaning of life
Boredom, Death, and the Meaning of Life, Cambridge University Press Blog
ON SUICIDE:
Choosing to Live: Stories of Those Who Stepped Away from Suicide
"When Christians Contemplate Suicide," Christian Feminism Today (August, 2013)
STORIES
ON BEING A COLLEGE PROFESSOR:
"Learn from a Listener," Trinity Magazine (Spring, 2004), 12-13
"Uncommon Teacher" (May, 2011) by Nicole Boudreau Smith
"Betrayal," New Scriptor: A Forum for Illinois Educators, XIII (2012), 52-54
"Diary of a Mad Professor," Trinity Magazine (Spring, 2012, 20-23 Also at Diary of a Mad Professor
"Call Me 'Cliff'," The Wheaton Record (January 12, 2017 by Katie Bracy
A FEW DIARIES ON TEACHING:
A class on the problem of evil
SOME ARTICLES:
"Moral Beauty," Spirituality Today, 42 (Spring 1990), 4-14
"Peacemaking and the Just War Theory," Sacred Tribes Journal, 4 (Fall 2009), 95-112
"Is Christianity Reasonable?" Pulpit Digest (September/October, 1994), 68-74
"Pretending, Self-Justification, and Grace," in James Cox, ed., Best Sermons 4 (HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), 258-263
"When Mercy Hurts," Christianity Today (February 3, 1989), 16-19 Also here.
"Vulnerable People—Victims Forever," The Marian Helpers Bulletin (October – December 1984), 21
VIRTUES AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS:
Pride and Vainglory, Envy, Anger
Psychological Generosity, Romantic Love, Patience, Forgivingness
Humility, Contrition, Joy, Gratitude
Hope, Emotional Peace, Compassion
Personal Virtues: Introductory Essays (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005)
FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM:
Free Will and Determinism: A Dialogue (Hackett, 1980)
Determinism, God, Evil, and the Meaning of Life: A Dialogue
MISCELLANEOUS:
Renewing the Mind, Academia.edu
Debate: Does Life after Death Require Dualism?
Yes: Kieth Yandell
No: Clifford Williams
My Last Day: An Experiment in Deathwatching
500 Little Sayings on Life, Death, and Everything Else
A Report from One Who Has Been Grieving the Death of His Spouse
CORNERSTONE TALKS:
But What About Me? Ernest Becker and Immortality Projects
But What About Me? Friedrich Nietzsche and the Underhanded Pursuit of Heroism
But What About Me? Soren Kierkegaard and the Pursuit of Greatness
The Denial of Death: Ernest Becker
Kierkegaard and Crowd Christianity
Kierkegaard and Purity of Heart
ADVENTURES AND STORIES:
Lighthearted:
Serious:
Tragic:
A little unusual:
This and that:
HOBO STUFF:
One More Train to Ride: The Underground World of Modern American Hoboes (Indiana University Press, 2003)
A Professor Takes to the Rails
MORE MISCELLANEOUS:
The Delights of Married Love: A Wedding Meditation
