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August 2024

August 10, 2024
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to...
August 04, 2024
  (Senior dharma teacher with Empty Moon Zen, Dr Chris Hoff offered a meditation on...
August 02, 2024
My book the Intimate Way of Zen: Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey...

July 2024

July 30, 2024
I find myself thinking of Daniel Defoe. I'm one of those who like to celebrate...
July 24, 2024
On July 24th in 1901 that William Sydney Porter was released from prison. He tried...
July 22, 2024
The 22nd of July is marked out as a feast for Mary Magdalene. As a...
July 20, 2024
Book burning is a thing. Many of us still are angry about the fires at...
July 16, 2024
It was on the 16th of July in 1228 that the Roman Catholic Church formally...
July 14, 2024
    It was on the 9th of July, in 1969, that Gertrude Dixon, Trudy...
July 06, 2024
On the 7th of July, in 1456, a retrial of Joan of Arc found her...
July 02, 2024
In the liturgical calendars of the Eastern churches, as well as among the Anglicans and...

June 2024

June 29, 2024
Why is it that a person of the intimate way cannot cut off the the...
June 23, 2024
Big things going on in Unitarian Universalist world. And I find it time for some...
June 19, 2024
Robert Baker Aitken was born on June the 19th, 1917 in Philadelphia. At five his...
June 16, 2024
In digging through my files I notice every few years I share an ongoing thread...
June 15, 2024
Dizang asked Fayan, “Where are you going?”  Fayan answered, “Around on pilgrimage.” Dizang then asked,...
June 11, 2024
Harriet Martineau, British novelist, lecturer, abolitionist and theological thinker was born on the 12th of...
June 08, 2024
I'm deeply interested in religious syncretisms. Possibly my favorite is the Luminous Religion, a Nestorian...
June 06, 2024
Kitaro Nishida died on the 7th of June 1945. He brought a deep commitment to...
June 02, 2024
Allen Ginsberg was born on the 3rd of June, in 1926, in Newark, New Jersey....

May 2024

May 31, 2024
I've been thinking about foolish wisdom. While this is another season, it made me recall April...
May 30, 2024
The novelist Lidia Yuknavitch tells how once in her youth, "Joan of Arc visited me...
May 28, 2024
As I sense the falling sands in my hourglass slipping away, over the past couple...
May 26, 2024
Trinity Sunday. The old joke has it that on Trinity Sunday the congregations in the...
May 25, 2024
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on the 25th of May, in 1803. I try to...
May 24, 2024
    On the 24th of May, the Romani, or at least some Romani, celebrate...
May 21, 2024
  What follows is a Dharma talk by Dr Chris Hoff delivered at our 18th...
May 18, 2024
Shunryu Suzuki was born on the 18th of May, 1904, in a village about fifty...
May 17, 2024
On the 17th of May in 1900 L. Frank Baum’s the Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
May 13, 2024
The 13th of May, in 1373, Julian of Norwich starting having a series of visions....
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