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Honored to have contributed an op-ed in @tricyclemag.bsky.social: tricycle.org/article/read...

A reminder that there's a Black-woman owned site you can use to track the books you've read and want to read, in case you want to leave that *other* site. #BookSky #AmReading #BlackBookSky #StoryGraph

Vera Janacopoulos, by Jan Engelman (1932)

One great thing about AI is that I can now share with my anglophone colleagues my favorite Dutch-language poems. Here is Herman Gorter, the poet of light and silence. Marvelous Dutch stylist.

"But the best thing I can say about Van Overmeire’s book—and for me, this is high praise—is that it will send me back to read these books again, or in a few cases, for the first time. His insightful survey gives them a fresh feel and paints a vivid portrait of Zen practice today." bit.ly/4k5GyyQ

via Julie Zaugg @lemonde.fr Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives » Des départements entiers et des postes d’enseignants-chercheurs sont supprimés. www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Japanese #anime like the film "Demon Slayer" blends thrilling action with deep spiritual themes, drawing on Buddhist, Shinto, and samurai traditions to explore fate, sacrifice, and moral struggles. A philosophy and religious studies professor explains: buff.ly/2oK5vbM #religion #philosophy

Essential reading for educators today: thepenngazette.com/welcome-to-d.... Justin McDaniel's approach has long informed my own thinking on higher education in the age of AI. What if we used the institutional presence of the university to restrain student access to technology to free their mind?

Night walk in China. Parks are magical here.

Reading Kuttner's Fury, a strangely prescient (although I hope not too much) novel from the 1950s.

First publication in a philosophy journal and first publication on the new space project! If you're interested in Zen in space or in the Three Body problem, check it out. If you don't have access, PM me for pdf! brill.com/.../jour.../...

Join us at CC6D for a discussion of translation across different religions! #sblaar24

For those of you at #aarsbl24, please consider attending the panel I'm doing today. I'll be presenting on The Expanse and Mystical visions in Outer Space

Full house for the first panel of the science fiction unit on teaching religion through science fiction!

So proud to find my book at #SBLAAR24!

Virginia University Press published a short interview with me about my book American Koan. If you're interested, you can also use their website to pre-order the book. Check it out! upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

So I'm preparing for a conference talk on the modern Buddhist thinker Alan Watts, who I've been occupied with lately. Watts outlines 4 ways of thinking about the cosmos, 2 not great, 2 better.

Wat ze bedoelen is dat vrouwen kiezen voor een eigen carrière en zelfontplooiing. Voor mannen was dat altijd al heel normaal, met steun van hun vrouwen. Maar die hebben daar dus geen zin meer in. Met je YOLO generatie.

Honored to be Featured Faculty on DKU's Center for the Study of Contemporary China's website. Read on for my thoughts on Zen, autobiography, and Buddhism in space! www.dukekunshan.edu.cn/cscc/feature...

New book review: Van Cutsem on Kieschnick, John: _Buddhist Historiography in China_. Columbia University Press, 2022. Published by H-Buddhism. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20033718...