As Victoria faces another day of extreme fire danger and a blizzard bringing as much as a foot of snow bears down on us in New York (after coating Alabama and Georgia!), I've been trying to finish proposals for conferences at the end of the year: the Parliament of the World's Religions (as part of whose website you have to pick from the options at left - is "Interfaith" now a "Religious Tradition"?), and the American Academy of Religion. PWR is done; AAR remains - wish me luck. Both proposals are on the religion of the future, hard enough not to sound silly on when you're not preoccupied with the meteorological future. May all be safe.