Asian Spiritualities Reconnecting Us Westerners to Reality of Everything Everywhere

I feel like I’m having a little Buddhist Revival as I read Chapter 8, “The River Widens” in Rebecca Solnit’s “The Begining Comes After The End”. It’s a “Revival” because I had my intitial “baptism” into Buddhist thought and spirituality via the writings and spiritual exrecises of Elizabeth O’Connor’s “Our Many Selves”, which was essentially a spritual journaling exercise book, Continue Reading

World History Hall of Shame 

The Trump Administration has put this on the world Hall of Shame map of "religious" appropriation and human tragedy. Alongside the Crusades, slavery and cruelty to the Indigenous in the U.S., and the Jim Crow bigotries. Their appropriation of religious language simply must be placed alongside all their other lies as still another lie. They blaspheme America, they blaspheme decency, Continue Reading

The Bible is like “The Book of Eli” for Christian Nationalists

This nonsense happening with military leaders telling their people that all this Iran stuff is going to "fulfill prophecy" and "God's plan" is absolute bananas. "Bananas Theology". Just inane, idiotic appropriation of Scripture for the purposes of using it to "convince" people who are inclined to be led around by the nose. It's "Book of Eli" style interpretation. It doesn't Continue Reading