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We're back at the 300 year old stone inn-turned-B&B in Kingston which is rapidly becoming our preferred getaway from the City's...

Leap Day!

COVID-19 seems to be making its way around the world. The question of whether it will arrive in any given place has been replaced by the qu...

One of the places I occasionally caffeinate.

Took the "Religion and Ecology" class to the Rubin Museum today for their newest show, which is smashing - except for the title, ...

I had a guest speaker in the Job and the Arts class today, a Baptist preacher who occasionally preaches on Job. She insisted we start our...

April is the cruelest month but Spring is early this year. My mind is reeling at feelings of doom on various timescales - ecological, poli...

Here's a new addition to the "Religion & Ecology" syllabus, complementing the chapter on "The Power of Place" i...

My first introduction to the Anglican tradition was the lovely liturgy of choral Evensong , performed as night falls at English cathedrals ...

Today the Vestry of the Church of the Holy Apostles had a lovely, rare experience - a "retreat" in our own church! This was mad...

  Entirely too early for forsythia, but how can one not delight in them?

We cut short a wonderfully rich discussion of the "teachings of plants" in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass to take ...

One of the most exciting moments in my course on the Book of Job and the arts is when I invite students to add a speech to the text. The mo...

Latest brilliant install- ment of our newer truer history of The New School - don't think we've given up! Only the subtitle, furni...

What do thirty articles on New School histories look like? #30 “ The New School’s Forgotten President: The controversial tenure of John...

Can it be?

The news out of China is mind-boggling. Numbers keep changing - these are from the South China Morning Post , the only updates I've see...

Something a student said in class last week has been haunting me. I'd put on the board the question which Mary Evelyn Tucker and John G...

Much has been made of the "oriental fable" Tolstoy recounts in his Confessions and James quotes in the "Sick Soul" part...