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November 2020

November 23, 2020
    Many years ago when I began to take night classes at the local...
November 22, 2020
      Sixty years ago today, in Dallas, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated....
November 19, 2020
    A BLESSING WAY James Ishmael Ford IN A BEGINNING In a beginning was...
November 15, 2020
    On Facebook religious historian Gregory Holmes Singleton was recommending a book Edward Baring,...
November 08, 2020
        FEAR & COURAGE & FAITH A Meditation on Politics and the...
November 03, 2020
  Well, the election is at hand. Today the last votes will be cast to...
November 02, 2020
    Kathryn Dawn Lang was born on this day, the 2nd of November, in...
November 01, 2020
    Out near where my mother in law lives there's a church "All Saint's...

October 2020

October 31, 2020
    This morning I was listening to Tom Wardle, one of our Empty Moon...
October 28, 2020
  Abigail Adams died on this day, the 28th of October, 1818. In the Christian...
October 27, 2020
    This is a turbulent moment in the history of our Republic, those of...
October 24, 2020
HOW ARE WE FREE? Mo Weinhardt Empty Moon Zen   I’ve been thinking a lot...
October 18, 2020
      A Meditation on What My Grandmother Taught Me First Unitarian Church of...
October 10, 2020
    Guishan, Yangshan, and the intimate way. Zen teacher James Ishmael Ford reflections on...
October 06, 2020
    The lovely and good folk of the Episcopal church celebrate the life of...
October 04, 2020
    Most high, all powerful, all good Lord! All praise is yours, all glory,...

September 2020

September 29, 2020
Translating God Glenn Taylor Webb Understanding the great mystery of existence from birth to death...
September 28, 2020
    Recently I had a conversation with a friend about truth-telling. We agreed how...
September 27, 2020
      We have seen Yitzhak Perlman Who walks the stage with braces on...
September 11, 2020
    As it happens yesterday, the 10th of September was, among other things, the...
September 06, 2020
    FOLLOWING THE SCENTED GRASSES A Meditation on Beginnings and Endings and What Happens...
September 05, 2020
A PILGRIM’S PROGRESS  Zen, Maps of the Spiritual Life, Miscellaneous Traps, and, of course, the...

August 2020

August 30, 2020
  Well, it's official. The webpage for the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles announces...
August 29, 2020
      Recently I've seen a couple of memes wandering around my corner of...
August 28, 2020
      The other day someone cited something Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote in his...
August 23, 2020
      My dreams are populated by those figures out of the ancient near...
August 16, 2020
  How time flies. It was on this day, the 16th of August in 1930...
August 14, 2020
    AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ZEN KOAN James Ishmael Ford The Case Zhaozhou visited...
August 11, 2020
  Once, the poet Mary Oliver was invited by some friends to visit Walden pond....
August 09, 2020
    DREAMS OF WALDEN POND The Way of Liberal Religion James Ishmael Ford While...
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