I'm listening to the Lessons and Carols service from King's College Cambridge this morning, as I post these. The bleak midwinter is a good time to be reminded of hope, for sure.

Good critique of the...

I've been busy with finals, but really I'm just drilling deep into work I've been putting off for a while. I hope to make that work come to fruition in the new year. In the meantime, a lot of stuff...

Where we live, out in the country, buffered from any town by mountains, we have good night skies.  And on cold nights, like tonight, if it is a clear sky, the stars and the moon are emphatically...

Sorry for my silence through October and November. I suppose I just have to be reconciled to the fact that my blogging will always go a bit more radio silent during semesters. My mind gets so...

It's been a couple weeks of busy-ness: a conference in Rome, then a conference I was co-organizing (really, one whose organization was done by our grad students, whom I co-oversaw), and now just a...

Well, not really a week's worth.  But after a week, some links.  Actually I was just in Rome this past week, which was an amazing experience--I hadn't been in Rome for over forty years.  Spoiler alert...

Back here, sorry I've been slow--it's a busy September for me!  After the next several weeks, I should be back here more.  In the meantime, I have been harvesting links...

Another piece about...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine staggers on, but recently there's been some evidence of at least a performative counter-offensive on the Ukranians' side.  I don't think it will change things very...

Sunday, August 28, was the feast day of St Augustine of Hippo, who died August 28, 430 AD.

“When you really spend time with Augustine he is remarkably vulnerable, humble, and very much imagines...

Sorry I've been quiet--just getting ready for classes.  They started yesterday for us, and I'm still getting ready for them.

But I do have the links for you.

Wow, this is a really wide-ranging...