The academic year for us starts on Monday. Things are different for me this year because I have become the Chair of the Religious Studies Department after a year long leave. The summer was spent traveling and moving my office, which turned out to be a bigger chore than I was prepared for.I want to extend a warm welcome to our incoming and returning students into our very special intellectual community here at Rice. I have taken this opportunity to write more about our program and post it on our departmental website: "The motto of Rice University is strikingly bold. 'Unconventional Wisdom.' It is a motto that we love to own because it describes the kind of intellectual community that we create and foster in the Department of Religious Studies. To study here means to challenge the status quo, to investigate what is not obvious, to reimagine what was, is and can be when it comes to religion. To study here means to enter an intellectual community where critical thought, disciplined training, and innovation intersect with religion." To read the rest of my message, click HERE.
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I spent about five weeks on the campus this summer (m wife was there for training, so I accompanied her). It is a wonderful place. The students who attend there are lucky!
Just begun to read your Blog: Quite good looking forward to more.
As G.K.Chesterton once said "The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid"
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