[Note: if you came here on my poems thread, the poem part is at the end.] A few weeks ago the New York Times  found it newsworthy that a...

Series Note: Once in a while, when excerpts from my online course on US religion (see below**) are timely for context, historical...

Sometimes humor only works in distinctive niches with particular background presuppositions. Whether it will land in this case, I'm not...

What should this blog say about the ongoing slaughter in Gaza? So much is already being written that adding my voice may be redundant,...