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My name is Alias, but if you search real hard, you might be able to find out my true identity. If you google the name you find, you might learn that I teach, and write about teaching sometimes, and if the government went on a witch-hunt, if this were the McCarthy hearings era, I would be top of the list because of a little article about Vermont secession. But, if you read carefully, I do not take a stand on secession, rather I argue that we should debate secession to ground the study of government in the real-world, and to challenge ourselves and our students to consider other perspectives.

This is my first blog ever. I'm not sure what to write, but Richard, our professor for the day, said to base our blogs on something we would write a book about. I just discovered that I am going to be published, and the book is called: Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World---with a little help from Nagarjuna. It has 5 authors, so my words are embedded within the whole, but it began with my senior thesis about mystical experiences across many different religious traditions. From there, my adviser, John P. Keenan was off and running...