The California dilemma
For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, the drought situation in California continues to worsen, and the state is beginning to step in with more drastic measures to address the crisis. The latest...
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A New Cosmopolitics – Religion Science and Spirit in Dialogue
As anyone who knows me can tell you, science and spirituality are both topics I am deeply fascinated in, and are topics I have written about in my academic practices, as well as...
A Scrapyard of Hindu Puppet Gods
There is something very creepy about the images that Roc Morin captured for his story about puppet designer and artist Ulhas Utkar, who makes many of the major figurines used for religious festivals...
Chinese Atheism and the Political Theology of the Dalai Lama Reincarnation
My latest piece just got published at the State of Formation website. In this piece, I look at some of the recent clashes between the 14th Dalai Lama and the Chinese state, and...
The Politics of Hair
My friend Chelsea has a great new post on her blog The Phenomenology of Hair I wanted to highlight, about a recent experience of hers while being a stylist here in the big...
Playing with Dough is Challah Fun
So one of my many past times is bread baking. Sometimes I get really into it, like I did a few years back for Yule, and made something like 15 loaves as holiday...
