This is a super important statement for the psychedelics field. I have a few thoughts: brlawrencelc.com/2025/09/29/r...

And it’s not just Christian nuns! theconversation.com/tibetan-budd...

Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

The question is not whether or not there is an AI bubble. The only question is when, precisely, it is going to pop.

An early version of the first US News college rankings awarded points for diversity & didn't put the usual suspects on top. So the magazine got rid of the statistician responsible & changed the algorithm to affirm the "conventional wisdom of the meritocracy." washingtonmonthly.com/2000/09/01/p...

In 2012 I got to visit the legendary birthplace of Confucius in Shandong Province. It’s a bit like Christians visiting Bethlehem!

Alex, I’ll take “Things that are likely to backfire” for $2000. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/n...

Alas, they are also vanishing: religionnews.com/2025/09/19/a...

Of course, sometimes the ones they are rescuing are themselves! 😳 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Once again it’s nuns to the rescue!

The facts do not care about Donald’s feelings.

Wait’ll this warrior find out about church bells

This is an excellent analogy:

Some belated thoughts on the 2025 Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop @cfr.org: brlawrencelc.com/2025/09/25/w...

This is, indeed, a very good article. It fails, however, to answer a very basic question: Who is the administrator of DOGE!?!? #WITAOD

I’ve been watching various physicists I follow, and really scientists generally, resharing this post all day and I have to say it’s really kind of fun and more than a little touching to watch the scientific community discover the concept of sainthood.

What’s old is new again! I give you Yes, Minister, Season 2, Episode 1 (1981) youtu.be/x-5zEb1oS9A?...

To be clear, I am not an Ed Markey fan, but I’d take him over Moulton.

Oh please no. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/n...

Analects 2.3, tr. Slingerland

SPOILER 🚨🚨🚨: They didn’t. “The House of Representatives… didn't want to call him king in case that gave him ideas or his successor ideas. So they wanted to give him the humblest, meagrest, most pathetic title they could think of. And that title was president.” www.npr.org/transcripts/...

L’Shana Tovah to those celebrating.

Yes, please! #Brookline

Yet another day of:

Just going to set this here:

Unfortunately Morgan Stanley analysts said they were unable to locate a version of this chart that went past 1999

Just a reminder that the Trump administration is a massive death panel:

Amen!

Excellent explainer on why private industry and venture capital can’t replace government funded basic science research.

😔

Thankfully, there is still freedom of speech in the Netherlands. Parody is a wonderful thing.

A glimmer of hope in the chaplaincy world.

It really was. This applies to basically every bit of news that came out today!

If Episcopalians are late stage, what does that make the non-denoms? 😳

Whoa!

So, two substances, one person? 🤔

I wrote a thing about megachurches, which is not really my area of specialization, but I explain why we should all pay at least some attention to them at the end. brlawrencelc.com/2025/09/19/h...

This looks like a really interesting conversation with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew tomorrow morning at 10:30am Eastern: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJf...

Wisdom! Let us attend:

D and it’s not close, though I’m assuming we mean post-Columbian food from the region.

In case there was any question:

A brilliant, as always, rejoinder to Friedman’s nonsense. My only remaining question is, what does @melaniemitchell.bsky.social watch on TV?

Et tu, #Massachusetts?

all in all I obviously wouldn't say things are peachy right now but as you make your way through the shittiest discourses known to man on this website don't doomscroll your way into a feeling of inevitability and defeatedness that the current geopolitical situation doesn't actually warrant

Hint: it’s not God.

Ahem, #Brookline…

I’m going to have to find a new sauce for Spaghetti night, aren’t I?

“We hear from people all the time, too, that religious dietary restrictions are hardly ever met,” Valencia said. In case there are any lawyers with any time on their hands these days, there’s a great 1A claim in the making here.

Screen’s gonna be crowded this week!