Black Boy – Richard Wright
It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it …
Category Archives: Religion
James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a …
Trump Calls for 1882 All Over Again
It was only a matter of time that Donald Trump would do this: Donald Trump Wants to Stop All Muslim …
Terror: The Terrible Numbers
The attacks in Paris are most recently on our minds, and for many of us, more heavily there than attacks …
Resisted War, Resisted Racism, Resisted Silence: George Houser
Ninety Nine years is only the last accomplishment of George Houser’s amazing life: WW II conscientious objector, 1940 Co-founder of the …
The Prison of Belief
“Just because you believe it doesn’t make it true,” reads a bumper sticker I’ve recently seen. It’s not a popular …
Confucius: Reading the Secular Among the Buddhists
For some reason, heading out for a 5 week trip to South East Asia, I retrieved my 1972 copy of …
Myanmar — Working Its Way from the Darkness
Burma, possibly becoming Myanmar. Rangoon, returned to being Yangon. Bagan, a countryside of ten thousand temples trying to imagine and …
Genesis Addendum
Looks like after God created light and the firmament there should be an addendum in Genesis such that “let the …
Southern Baptists (Some) Join the Fold
“44 Southern Baptist leaders have decided to back a declaration calling for more action on climate change, saying its previous …
Ecological Buddhism
I ran across this site today — Ecological Buddhism. Looks like it might have orginated in Ireland and Tibet from …
Patched Robe Monks
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… A priest at the Ann Arbor temple, Haju Sunim (aka Linda Murray), explained that Dumpster diving is …