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Channing Gray writes at today\u2019s Providence Journal:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Providence\u2019s First Unitarian Church went looking for a new minister three years ago, 40 percent of the congregation when surveyed expressed an interest in Buddhism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s no surprise that the man hired for the job, The Rev. James Ishmael Ford, is not only a Unitarian Universalist minister but a Zen Buddhist<\/a> priest, and that there are now a couple of Buddhist meditation<\/a> groups offered at the church that are open to the public without charge.\u201d<\/p><\/span><\/span>\n

The story continues here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Channing Gray writes at today\u2019s Providence Journal: \u201cWhen Providence\u2019s First Unitarian Church went looking for a new minister three years ago, 40 percent of the congregation when surveyed expressed an interest in Buddhism. \u201cSo it\u2019s no surprise that the man hired for the job, The Rev. James Ishmael Ford, is not only a Unitarian Universalist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nZen Meditation in Providence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Channing Gray writes at today's Providence Journal:"When Providence\u2019s First Unitarian Church went looking for a new minister three years ago, 40 percent\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/zen-meditation-in-providence.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zen Meditation in Providence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Channing Gray writes at today's Providence Journal:"When Providence\u2019s First Unitarian Church went looking for a new minister three years ago, 40 percent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/zen-meditation-in-providence.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Monkey Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/james.ford.1029\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-02T10:10:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-11-01T19:02:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qH3bWXSpZ5Y\/Tb67NhGzmPI\/AAAAAAAADxw\/SW2cIaQ8Idk\/s320\/Benevolent+Street+Zendo.jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/zen-meditation-in-providence.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/zen-meditation-in-providence.html\",\"name\":\"Zen Meditation in Providence\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-02T10:10:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-11-01T19:02:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\"},\"description\":\"Channing Gray writes at today's Providence Journal:\\\"When Providence\u2019s First Unitarian Church went looking for a new minister three years ago, 40 percent\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/zen-meditation-in-providence.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/zen-meditation-in-providence.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/zen-meditation-in-providence.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Zen Meditation in Providence\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/\",\"name\":\"Monkey Mind\",\"description\":\"Easily distracted...\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\",\"name\":\"James Ford\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"James Ford\"},\"description\":\"James Ishmael Ford is a writer and spiritual director. 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