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March 2016

March 07, 2016

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: a Short Review

Yesterday Jan & I saw Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Tina Fey’s war comedy based on journalist...

March 06, 2016

A LAWYER ASKED JESUS, WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? A Buddhist Meditation on a Christian Parable

A LAWYER ASKED JESUS, WHO IS MY NEIGHOR? A Buddhist Meditation on A Christian Parable...

March 05, 2016

A Feast for Lei Feng, A Small Meditation on the Work of Saints

In contemporary Chinese culture today is Lei Feng Day. Lei Feng appears to have been...

March 04, 2016

May You Live in Interesting Times: A Small Meditation on Life When It All is Falling Apart

I really would like to indulge in a little schadenfreude in the wake of last...

March 03, 2016

Wishing Doc Watson a Happy 93rd Birthday!

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson was born on this day in 1923. He would have been...

March 03, 2016

Getting Patriotic

And so it happens. It was on this day in 1931, after years during which...

March 02, 2016

King Kong Opens

As it happens it was on this day in 1933 that the film King Kong...

March 01, 2016

Rebirth and Zen

The mainstream Indian conviction was that each person has a single, permanent soul. The Chinese...

March 01, 2016

The Burning Spear Is Thrown

Winston Rodney was born on this day in 1945. He's better known as Burning Spear....

February 2016

February 29, 2016

What is Enlightenment in Zen?

Some years ago there was a NY Times Magazine article, “Enlightenment Therapy.” It created a...

February 28, 2016

MARK TWAIN’S ENLIGHTENMENT EXPERIENCE A Meditation on Spirituality After Religions

MARK TWAIN’S ENLIGHTENMENT EXPERIENCE A Meditation on Spirituality After Religions James Ishmael Ford 28 February...

February 27, 2016

George Herbert, A Soul Composed of Harmonies

George Herbert was an Anglican priest who spent much of his brief life serving as...

February 26, 2016

Remembering the Man Who Asked the Next Question: Wishing Theodore Sturgeon a Happy 98th!

Theodore Sturgeon was a terribly important figure in my youth. His science fiction was a...

February 26, 2016

But at Least We got Cornflakes

John Harvey Kellogg was born on this day in 1852. Dr Kellogg was in the...

February 25, 2016

Stopping to Recall an Historic Moment in the History of the Republic

It was on this day in 1870 that the Reverend Hiram Rhodes Revels, after a...

February 25, 2016

Happy Birthday, George Harrison!

George Harrison would have been seventy-three today.

February 23, 2016

A REPORT ON LAY DHARMA TRANSMISSION IN NORTH AMERICAN SOTO ZEN

A Report on Lay Dharma Transmission in North American Soto Zen 18 September 2006 Prepared...

February 23, 2016

In Celebration of Good Boundaries: Or, Have a Blessed Terminalia!

As it happens the good folk at Wikipedia tell us that today is Terminalia, the...

February 22, 2016

A Meditation on Alan Watts & A Christianity Worth Following

To quote from myself, because, well, because I can, in my history of Zen Buddhism...

February 21, 2016

My Private War

Jan and I and our friend the Zen priest Dosho Port were driving back to...

February 21, 2016

Thinking of Malcolm X, Who Was Assassinated on this Day in 1965

Malcolm X is an unlikely spiritual paragon. But, he is. Malcolm Little's father was killed...

February 20, 2016

A Pause in the Midst of the Craziness to Honor Frederick Douglass as a Christian Saint

On this day in the American Episcopalian liturgical calendar they celebrate the life and work...

February 19, 2016

When Artists Write History: A Small Thought on Engaging the World

The other evening Jan and I were visiting with some old friends who in one...

February 17, 2016

Passed Away

Yesterday I heard on the news the announcement that former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali...

February 16, 2016

Enter King Tut

It was on this day in 1923, just shy of three weeks after his excavation...

February 14, 2016

THE MYSTERIES OF INTIMACY: A Buddhist Meditation on Valentine’s Day

THE MYSTERIES OF INTIMACY A Buddhist Meditation for Valentine’s Day James Ishmael Ford 14 February...

February 13, 2016

Charles Schulz as Religious Humanist

I notice that it was yesterday in 2000 that the wildly popular cartoonist Charles M...

February 12, 2016

The Heavens Cry out in Joy: Charles Darwin is Born on this Day!

Just yesterday I was thinking how Darwin's Origin of Species, in addition to arguably being...

February 11, 2016

Salvation by Bibliography: a Universalist Spiritual Discipline

In my opinion the only great Unitarian Universalist theologian, that is the only great religious...

February 10, 2016

The Great Schnozola is Born

One of the interesting things about being raised among the first television generation was that...