Category: Buddhism
Interreligious Engagement and Connection through Sacred Spaces
A healthy attitude towards traveling anywhere, no matter how far the distance, pushes the traveler out of her comfort zone. Her prevailing assumptions about the world, its people, and the environment ... Read More
Atonement, Not Attunement: The Beauty of Repentance
I’m all too familiar with Christian guilt. One side of my family is Irish Catholic (they of the famed “Catholic guilt”) and the other side a mix of Appalachian Protestants, from the backwoods Ba... Read More
Notes from the NICU: Ritual Matters
I blessed more than one dead baby this summer. When you are working as an intern chaplain on a hospital floor that includes the Labor and Delivery Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the... Read More
Religious Freedom to Discriminate: Unraveling Archetypes, Anachronism, and Apartheid for Our Collective Survival – Part IV
(photographer unknown) Warning: This essay contains content intended for mature audiences. Parental supervision is advised. Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythica... Read More
In Search of Kailash
For the past several years I have been working with a team of scholars, writers, artists and educators preparing for a month-long religious pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar in western ... Read More