I’m always involved in one or more passion projects that combine my interests in religion, history, and writing. Check out what I’m working on now, and what I’ve worked on in the past.
Killing the Buddha
In January 2019, I joined Briallen Hopper as Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Briallen Hopper) for Killing the Buddha, an online religion & spirituality magazine for people “drawn to and yet hostile to talk of God.” We’re known as a religion magazine for people made uncomfortable by churches. We publish essays, fiction, poetry, political commentary, reported features, reviews, and cultural criticism. Utne Reader declared KtB one of the “fifteen websites that could shake the world,” and CNN says it “makes religion interesting again.” Read us! Pitch us!
Older Projects
Digital Chicago: Unearthing History and Culture
From 2015-2019, I served as the coordinator of Digital Chicago: Unearthing History and Culture, a four-year (2015-2018), $800,000 grant at Lake Forest College from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to involve students and faculty in exploring specific at-risk or forgotten sites in Chicago’s history. As our tagline says, Digital Chicago unearths the city’s past in order to preserve it for a digital future. This grant ended in December 2018. Check out our suite of projects at the Chicago History Museum-hosted site at digitalchicagohistory.org.
Harvard Square Library
From 2011-2016, I served as the Director of the Harvard Square Library, a digital library of books, texts, and other media about Unitarian Universalism and religious liberalism, in America and elsewhere. At HSL, we have continued the work done since the early 2000’s by founding director Rev. Dr. Herbert F. Vetter. In recent years, we redesigned and updated the website as well as added new content. One of the major areas of new content we are in the process of adding is a digitized version of Peter Raible’s 1991 loose-leaf collection of documents about Polity Among the Unitarians and Universalists. I am pleased that the Rev. Susan Ritchie continues HSL’s excellent tradition.
