Sunny Side Up

organ Library has an exhibition on Hans Holbein up which I went to see with my friend J. There weren't many of his celebrated portraits...

The academic year's coming to a close. Summer beckons!

Sorting through things in my office (I'll be sharing with a colleague starting next semester) I stumbled on a sketchbook from my year in...

The latest by the indispensable Peter Hessler includes this pitch-perfect description of a certain kind of bookstore in China: Last year, w...

Will Mother's Day change its meaning when it comes to include forced motherhood for unwanted children, on pain of incarceration or worse...

Some more spring denizens of Adirondack

 Trout lilies

We're taking a little trip to our favorite place in the Adirondacks. Four hours due north and up from sea level to 2500 feet means movin...

Something rather lovely happened in "Religion and Ecology" today - our final class session around an assigned reading. The reading...

Seeds of our red maples, captured by a student...

Wrapped "After Religion" with a short  video of a funeral for robot puppies in Japan. Sony developed artificially intelligent ...

Looks like a shooting range. 

As "Religion and Ecology" wends to a close - next week is for student presentations and the final class for closing syntheses - we...

Spring creeps into every gap in our view, oblivious to human fears.

I've been obsessively looking at maps of Ukraine for weeks but there are other maps to fill one with fear, too. This is one from Las Ve...

In the Study Collection of Greek and Roman works I discovered looking for Pan  at the Met, some of the oldest things look the newest - or i...

Mary-Jane Rubenstein, the author of Pantheologies,  visited our class today and it was suitably pluralistically in person! Although she was ...

Sent this picture of Japanese maples on West 12th Street to a friend confined within her housing complex in Shanghai. This was her reply.

Fuzzy nose-tickling filaments on the masks provided by our school reminded me of the cli-fi story a student in last semester's "Ant...

Had a gathering with some of our religious studies minors and two sympathizers in the Lang courtyard today. Their day jobs include politics,...