Sunny Side Up

I'm not going to dwell on the exposure of the grifters with whom our now Grifter in Chief kept company, but had to remark on something ...

Not thinking about events in Washington, just making kale chips.

After many years, my old Ikea extendable dining table is getting a rest. Numberless the meals it's hosted, for countless dear people ov...

In the subway this evening I was telling my Chinese partner about a talk I'd heard about folk religion in contemporary Jiangsu. A woman...

In "Buddhist Modernism" we've finally got to the arrival of Buddhism in the West - about eight weeks later than many of the s...

Rather late in the game, the university is convening committees to figure out how to mark the New School's centenary in 2019. The drive...

A few blocks away from our place, on the way to the Botanic Garden, is the burned hull of a building. It's been vacant as long as I...

During our monthly vestry meetings, there's often an event or a music rehearsal going on in main . church building next door. Today not...

Have I told you that, as part of a new curriculum of "one text" courses, I'll be spending half of next semester reading Wil...

Inside the block between 12th and 13th Streets, Fifth and Sixth Aves.

Inspired by reports about the soon-to-open Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, and some of its conceptual challenges , I decided to ask...

Going through some old boxes of files from my Princeton days, I found this quite detailed account of how "Schleiermacher's roman...

Shambling toward an essay on 'Anthropocene' and religious studies - which seems barely to have noticed the discussion - I was delig...

A particularly destructive week, as the dotard of the adult day car center on Pennsylvanias Avenue destroys where we cannot build. The slim...

Season change

Somewhat unexpected resonance between Marx, our first shared reading after the MOOC adventure in "Theorizing Religion," and somet...