Sunny Side Up

Trounced again by the talented Jesse!

Imagine my surprise on looking out the window this morning to find - snow! Seems like just yesterday it looked like this , and just a few mo...

My flatmate Trevor is finally moving in this weekend! (This sunny room - the brightest in the apartment - will be his bedroom, so one or bo...

Just got back from a packed room where Ben Lee, the university provost, presented the latest version of the "university-wide academic p...

Argh, beaten at my own game! I wish I'd taken this picture (love that last burst of green!), but it's the work of the mysterious ...

The ginkgo tree down the street from me lost all its leaves the other day - except for the little branch above and in the center of the pic...

The minute Thanksgiving is over it's prime Christmas shopping season. (In some stores the Christmas music started right after Hallowe...

Here are some of the books I picked up at AAR. Lest you conclude I've thrown in my lot with new and postmodern Christianities to the exc...

Now here's a question for you. At a dinner last night with my parents and some of their friends, a medical doctor - the "black shee...

Strange, as I reflect back on the AAR experience I find that, once again, I have shifted in my view of religion. I seem - egad! - to be mov...

Here are some of the amazing images from an article in the latest issue of Scientific American (I should really get myself a subscription,...

A third day of AAR and I'm sated! Today wasn't the best day in terms of scheduled activities: a philosophy of religion panel where t...

Another fun-filled day at AAR: • a fascinating morning session on the study of "lived religion" in North America with papers on Me...

I love AAR. It's my only chance to be surrounded by other religious studies people all year, and since I've given myself permission ...

It was very strange to fly into San Diego at night just weeks after those fires. We had clear skies the whole way from JFK until just before...

Here's the view from my office window! The leaves just started turning reddish yesterday, and by the time I get back from San Diego (I...

This is what Fall looks like in our garden.

I think I've mentioned that I quite enjoy the commuting life - 20 minutes in the subway on the way to and from school to read papers or ...

Fall proceeds apace.