Category: Popular Culture
“A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher, Spirituality, and the American Underclass” by David Hamilton Golland
Arthur Fletcher was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1924. The son of a Buffalo Soldier, his mother cleaned other peoples’ homes despite her training as a schoolteacher and a nurse, proving an early less... Read More
“As I Develop the Awakening Mind:” the Dharma and MCA
Adam Yauch, aka MCA, died last week. He was a founding member of the Beastie Boys, also known for his Buddhism and social activism. He created the Milarepa Fund, which produced the Tibetan Freedom con... Read More
CeCe McDonald and the Need for Transformation: What Jacob’s Dream has to teach us about justice
CeCe's story is a particular story, a story of one woman living in a society with a long legacy of violence against women, violence against people of color, violence against queers, who fought back in... Read More
“Bullshit.”
In today’s news, we hear that a group of high school students were offended and walked out of a talk because they were told that they are too moral to do things like stoning women for being non-... Read More
What I Learned From Elie Wiesel
Every once in a while, maybe even once in a lifetime, someone comes into your life, unexpectedly, and changes it forever. That happened to me in the Fall of 2001. By this time, I had already gone back... Read More
“Divine Immanence: A Psychodynamic Study in Women’s Experience of Goddess,” by Patricia ‘Iolana
Our spiritual and religious stories have tremendous power. When these stories centre upon our personal relationship with the Divine (known to be ineffable, yet commonly referred to as God, the Godhead... Read More
Planned Parenthood Firebombing and Nazi Equivalencies: When Rhetoric Really is Complicity
Last year, in the aftermath of a shooting that critically injured U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford, the news cycle and American politicians entered a protracted debate on the relationship between ... Read More
Post-Women’s History Month: How My Tradition Affirms Women
Well, another Women’s History Month has come and gone by the time you read this. Many classrooms across the United States have talked about the contributions of women in the past, and some websites ... Read More