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January 2015

January 25, 2015
Watch what happens when a young Sikh, dressed as Captain America, hits the streets of...
January 25, 2015
What happens to you in Saudi Arabia if you criticize Muslim clerics on your blog....
January 23, 2015
Should a private business, like a bakery, be forced to cater a gay wedding if...
January 22, 2015
Wow! Here's a great primer on the the history of the Hagia Sophia and the...
January 21, 2015
Here's a fascinating story about freedom of religion and secularism. Does religious freedom mean that...
January 19, 2015
Here's a fascinating twenty minute segment from the Charlie Rose show on PBS in which...
January 14, 2015
Teaching engaged Buddhism? Here's great clip about Thich Nhat Hahn from the Religion and Ethics...
January 13, 2015
Watch Jon Stewart skewer Rupert Murdoch and others who believe that moderate Muslims should condemn...
January 11, 2015
Not specifically, according to scholar and author, Reza Aslan, author of "Zealot: The Life and...
January 09, 2015
Here the PBS News Hour tries to get to the root of Muslim extremism in...
January 08, 2015
The brutal attack on the the French satirical magazine and the murder of its cartoonists...
January 06, 2015
Studying Zen Buddhism? Here are two short clips, one about a day in the life...
January 04, 2015
  Teaching Buddhism? Check out the Mogao Caves in the Dunhuang oasis of the Gansu...
January 03, 2015
According to this excellent and graphic story from Human Rights Watch, the civil war between...

December 2014

December 18, 2014
These animated videos about the Buddha, Zen Buddhism and Taoism, "distill Eastern thought into fun,...
December 16, 2014
The Asia Society in New York City will premiere a major new exhibit of Buddhist...
December 12, 2014
Author Bruce Feiler (Walking the Bible) launches a new series with PBS this month called...
December 11, 2014
Today, my students in the United States discussed human rights and religious freedom during a...
December 09, 2014
Discover the many faces of  the Virgin Mary at this terrific new exhibit at the...
December 04, 2014
Does the Islamic term "jihad" mean "personal struggle" or does it, as many Americans believe,...

November 2014

November 30, 2014
Meet the Mengshan Mountain Giant Buddha. He's the second largest stone carved Buddha in the...
November 29, 2014
It's one of the  largest pilgrimages in the world rivaling or even surpassing the number...
November 26, 2014
Alan Watts, the author of the 1957 classic, The Way of Zen, helped popularize Zen Buddhism in...
November 22, 2014
Can an American citizen list Israel as their  place of birth, instead  of  Jerusalem? That's...
November 21, 2014
Studying human rights?  Here's a touching, engaging, and excellent  primer illustrating what they are and...
November 17, 2014
Do your students know what human rights are?  Are they familiar with current cases in...
November 16, 2014
An angry dog? No! It's a Shinto guardian in Tokyo. It's called a Komainu or...
November 13, 2014
Wow! Muslims asked the Montgomery County School Board in Maryland to add the Muslim holy day...
November 04, 2014
Learn the history and development of Buddhism  from some of its greatest sites. British historian...
November 03, 2014
Teaching Buddhism? The first five minutes of this 2006 Bill Moyers interview with Pema Chödrön...
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