Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
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Black Boy – Richard Wright
27 Aug 2021It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it…
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James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
23 Mar 2017Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a…
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Trump Calls for 1882 All Over Again
07 Dec 2015It was only a matter of time that Donald Trump would do this: Donald Trump Wants to Stop All Muslim…
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Terror: The Terrible Numbers
16 Nov 2015The attacks in Paris are most recently on our minds, and for many of us, more heavily there than attacks…
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Resisted War, Resisted Racism, Resisted Silence: George Houser
21 Aug 2015Ninety Nine years is only the last accomplishment of George Houser’s amazing life: WW II conscientious objector, 1940 Co-founder of the…
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The Prison of Belief
27 Mar 2015“Just because you believe it doesn’t make it true,” reads a bumper sticker I’ve recently seen. It’s not a popular…
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Confucius: Reading the Secular Among the Buddhists
02 Mar 2013For some reason, heading out for a 5 week trip to South East Asia, I retrieved my 1972 copy of…
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Myanmar — Working Its Way from the Darkness
14 Feb 2013Burma, possibly becoming Myanmar. Rangoon, returned to being Yangon. Bagan, a countryside of ten thousand temples trying to imagine and…
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Genesis Addendum
29 Apr 2010Looks like after God created light and the firmament there should be an addendum in Genesis such that “let the…
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Southern Baptists (Some) Join the Fold
10 Mar 2008“44 Southern Baptist leaders have decided to back a declaration calling for more action on climate change, saying its previous…
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Ecological Buddhism
02 Mar 2008I ran across this site today — Ecological Buddhism. Looks like it might have orginated in Ireland and Tibet from…
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Patched Robe Monks
06 Nov 2007Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… A priest at the Ann Arbor temple, Haju Sunim (aka Linda Murray), explained that Dumpster diving is…
