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July 2013

July 14, 2013
Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, who would take monastic vows as Pema Chodron, was born on this day...
July 11, 2013
Someone recently used the term "hating the sin, loving the sinner" in a conversation. It...
July 10, 2013
Lady Jane Grey assumed the throne of England on this day in 1553. It doesn't...
July 09, 2013
Yesterday on my Facebook page I posted a link to a campaign calling for the...
July 07, 2013
The Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh Gaya, the site of the Buddha's great awakening, was...
July 06, 2013
I note that today is Tenzin Gyatso's seventy-seventh birthday. I understand he's mulling whether on...
July 05, 2013
On this day in 1937 Hormel inflicted spam on the world. Nothing has been the...
July 03, 2013
I just spent a weekend at Empty Nest Zendo in North Fork, California, doing a...
July 01, 2013
I was talking to friend who was ruminating on how as she's aged she's become...

June 2013

June 30, 2013
June 29, 2013
June 27, 2013
In the early middle of the nineteenth century the brilliant, driven, and sometimes monstrous Samuel...
June 26, 2013
I've found myself thinking a lot about the Service of the Living Tradition, where the...
June 26, 2013
June 25, 2013
June 24, 2013
June 23, 2013
"(W)hen I say “God”, it is poetry, not theology. Nothing that any theologian ever wrote...
June 21, 2013
The question of Zen's kensho has come up several times in the last few weeks....
June 20, 2013
Every once in a while something happens that confuses and heartens at the same time....
June 19, 2013
The Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association gathers just ahead of the annual UU General Assembly, this...
June 17, 2013
Buddhist Voices in Unitarian Universalism Edited by Wayne Arnason & Sam Trumbore Forward by Lama...
June 15, 2013
Click on image for the full picture Front row: Stan Lombardo, Myoun Ford, Gaelyn Godwin,...
June 14, 2013
We're now about half way through the 2013 gathering of the American Zen Teachers Association....
June 11, 2013
Not long ago on Facebook, a fellow Unitarian Universalist minister, as I recall, mentioned visiting...
June 09, 2013
FOLLOWING THE SCENTED GRASSES A Meditation 9 June 2013 James Ishmael Ford First Unitarian Church...
June 08, 2013
THERE IS NO GOD And He is Always With You A Search for God in...
June 07, 2013
Today marks the beginning of the ancient Roman feast of Vestalia, running from today through...
June 06, 2013
Wishing the inestimable Holly Near a happy sixty-fourth birthday!
June 06, 2013
On this day in 1984 Tetris was released. The best-selling video game of all time....
June 05, 2013
ON this day in 1851 the first part of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...
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