This issue of Buddhadharma

I want to assert I’ve thought Buddhadharma the best of the current crop of North American Buddhist magazines for ages. And not just because they quote me extensively in Barry Boyce’s insightful essay on the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship. It’s also in the same issue that has my review of Isabel Stirling’s Zen Pioneer: The Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki.

I was a little surprised at the numbers Mr Boyce says I give to UU Buddhists (50,000). Now it is qualified with the line “broadest possible defintion.” Still, I do think that’s a bit on the enthusiastic side, even if it’s my enthusiasm. At the same time I’ve been told by friends in ministerial search this year that most churches do cite a lot of UUs with a signficant interest in Buddhism. Whether ten thousand or fifty thousand, it is a lot of us…