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After four years of near constant use, and holding valiantly together despite being cracked already in its very first month (subway platform...

Because of covid-19, the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion is virtual. It's also spread out over 12 days! So I've ...

Covering familiar materials in an unfamiliar way, some cool things came out. The readings were Diana Eck's classic "' Is our Go...

It's a long shot for lots of reasons, but my hosts at Renmin have asked if I'd be willing to teach there again this coming summer. I...

Imagine discovering this ! Extinct animals suggest 12,500 years old...

First expedition to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in almost a year! The "aura" of artworks made every work veritably leap off ...

That book I started reading , Lauren Redniss' Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West , couldn't, alas, be more time...

  A few days ago - it was November 19th - we noticed some strange objects parked on the street below. What the? You couldn't see them w...

It's not quite Thanksgiving break but some of my leisure reading for the holiday has arrived and I couldn't resist diving in.

 

Covid is out of control in the United States (almost 200,000 new infections in the last day!), affecting people who know its danger and - pe...

  250,000   are dead and this moral midget thinks he's entitled to another term image chart

We're in the final third of a long semester. My students aren't the only ones to tell of being overwhelmed - zoom keeps on sucking ...

Fun class in "Theorizing Religion" today - one which ended up in a different place than students expected, with things relevant an...

How do these stunning ice forms happen? They appeared above one Woniu Lake near the Russian border of Heilongjiang, in Northeast China.

Allow a proud big brother to brag a little. My sister's the editor of the Gisborne Gazette , which just won a big prize: the Community N...

  The forest floor's moment