{"id":47,"date":"2011-06-24T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2011\/06\/weekend-reading\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T07:11:00","slug":"weekend-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2011\/06\/weekend-reading.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">I\u2019m off to London for the weekend, so no blogging for me until at least late Sunday. But, before I go, here are some things well worth a read that I\u2019d like to write about early next week:\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YwxGhK27e1M\/TgQoKMmfg5I\/AAAAAAAABkI\/P_KuIqMvg2U\/s320\/Fullscreen+capture+6242011+65911+AM.bmp.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"305\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">NPR reports on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/23\/137342682\/the-end-of-gender\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The End of Gender?<\/a>\u201c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-CkCsxSiHiL8\/TgQoGT3xYyI\/AAAAAAAABj4\/UBQoTNbyWE0\/s1600\/Fullscreen+capture+6242011+65650+AM.bmp.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-CkCsxSiHiL8\/TgQoGT3xYyI\/AAAAAAAABj4\/UBQoTNbyWE0\/s320\/Fullscreen+capture+6242011+65650+AM.bmp.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/23\/health\/23lives.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;gwh=E72682F6F9E82D7BCA1641AEC5E0831D\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">interviews Marsha Lineham<\/a>, founder of a breakthrough (Zen-based) therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, which I\u2019ve written about <a href=\"http:\/\/americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/borderline-personality-disorder-and_29.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/borderline-personality-disorder-and.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-vaCr4Nxv8lw\/TgQoHmQPd3I\/AAAAAAAABj8\/mA1UFjGI664\/s1600\/Fullscreen+capture+6242011+65733+AM.bmp.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-vaCr4Nxv8lw\/TgQoHmQPd3I\/AAAAAAAABj8\/mA1UFjGI664\/s320\/Fullscreen+capture+6242011+65733+AM.bmp.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">Wildmind\u2019s excellent article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildmind.org\/applied\/daily-life\/insight\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">loving-kindness (<i>metta<\/i>) and insight<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-BJBDOlRiNUg\/TgQoIf0GKsI\/AAAAAAAABkA\/fOQcT9AU8fg\/s1600\/Fullscreen+capture+6242011+65808+AM.bmp.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-BJBDOlRiNUg\/TgQoIf0GKsI\/AAAAAAAABkA\/fOQcT9AU8fg\/s320\/Fullscreen+capture+6242011+65808+AM.bmp.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">And Religion Dispatch\u2019s article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/science\/4755\/do_ipads_cause_religious_experiences_\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the iPhenomena<\/a>, the Cult of i?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-920845506761838459?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m off to London for the weekend, so no blogging for me until at least late Sunday. But, before I go, here are some things well worth a read that I\u2019d like to write about early next week: NPR reports on \u201cThe End of Gender?\u201c The New York Times\u00a0interviews Marsha Lineham, founder of a breakthrough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekend Reading<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m off to London for the weekend, so no blogging for me until at least late Sunday. 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