My aunt Carolyn retired from a college teaching career and moved into our family’s historic farmhouse in northern Wisconsin. When the St....

What do we remember? How do we remember? What good does it do? I started this post while the media's weekly dose of infotainment was...

I know I’m not supposed to play the proud parent too much, especially when my daughter (Lucia Hulsether) moves in some of the same...

There isn’t much point in sending readers of this little blog to Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s review portal—I...

I was dismayed to learn that the Trade Lake Township board appears (at least temporarily) to be backtracking on its promise—voted under...

In few days I head to my summer writing place, a log cabin in the Wisconsin north woods where my mom grew up. It's about halfway between...

I've imagined this as a place to gather and repost—when timely and useful—earlier pieces that are “blog-friendly” but scattered to the...

In both classes I am teaching this term, I heard matter-of-fact comments about how end-times theologies correlate with “fatalism”—which...

Trump's friend and co-gangster Paul Manafort has received a 47 month sentence for multiple crimes. That's a slap on the wrist from a...

My previous post explained why “refereed” publications—those vetted by expert academic gatekeepers—do not reliably signal scholarly...

An Open Letter to Senator Corker, Senator Alexander, and Representative Duncan: When I talk to people who are less pessimistic than I am...

When the Mafia-backed entrepreneur and con man Donald Trump captured a majority of electoral college votes—although, of course, not a...

There's a structural conundrum to confront... this will not be one facet of a multi-pronged social media campaign. I did not sign up for...

Starting in January, and continuing through Spring 2018, I will be at the University of Alberta in Edmonton as a Fulbright Research Chair...