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Anglicans Meet for Lambeth Conference
BBC NEWS | UK | Lambeth Conference: Anglican voicesHomosexuality and the ordination of women bishops are two of the...
BBC NEWS | UK | Lambeth Conference: Anglican voicesHomosexuality and the ordination of women bishops are two of the...
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Massachusetts Senate votes to end gay marriage restriction
Massachusetts Senate votes to end gay marriage restriction - Los Angeles TimesThe Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday voted to...
Massachusetts Senate votes to end gay marriage restriction - Los Angeles TimesThe Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday voted to...
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WWJD
The Prairie Preacher has some pointed comments to make about the issue of Christian charity and modern...
The Prairie Preacher has some pointed comments to make about the issue of Christian charity and modern...
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War Crimes
The Mahablog brings us a conversation between Rachel Maddow and Jonathan Turley, an expert on Constitutional law, about the...
The Mahablog brings us a conversation between Rachel Maddow and Jonathan Turley, an expert on Constitutional law, about the...
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A Tibetan Monk’s Political Passion Inspires a Documentary
They seemed an unlikely pair — the Tibetan Buddhist monk who had spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps and the...
They seemed an unlikely pair — the Tibetan Buddhist monk who had spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps and the...
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China jails monks to silence Olympic protests
Why do we see and hear nothing about this from the US press. Are we that afraid of the Chinese? Or does the almighty dollar...
Why do we see and hear nothing about this from the US press. Are we that afraid of the Chinese? Or does the almighty dollar...
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Thanks to Barbara O’Brien’s Buddhism Blog for links to the two articles below. You can find her blog — and...
Thanks to Barbara O’Brien’s Buddhism Blog for links to the two articles below. You can find her blog — and...
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How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution
July 1, 2008 | With biologist Richard Dawkins leading the way, many scientists today are locked in an unending match of...
July 1, 2008 | With biologist Richard Dawkins leading the way, many scientists today are locked in an unending match of...
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Buddhism and the Environment
A look at the relationship of Buddhists to the environment through the lens of the sutras.Buddhism and the EnvironmentIn the...
A look at the relationship of Buddhists to the environment through the lens of the sutras.Buddhism and the EnvironmentIn the...
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The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism
Precious Metal: the blogBy Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh (From the book Interbeing)1. Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any...
Precious Metal: the blogBy Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh (From the book Interbeing)1. Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any...
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New Age
Shravasti Dhammika writes:New age is a term that became current in the 1980’s to describe a nebulous, pseudo-religious set...
Shravasti Dhammika writes:New age is a term that became current in the 1980’s to describe a nebulous, pseudo-religious set...
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Foundation gives $5 million to endow Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies
Retired billionaire businessman Robert Hung-Ngai Ho, who now makes his home in Vancouver, has gifted $5 million for Buddhist...
Retired billionaire businessman Robert Hung-Ngai Ho, who now makes his home in Vancouver, has gifted $5 million for Buddhist...
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Wiccian weddings and other things that make for an interesting weekend
Two days ago my older sister got married in a semi-traditional Wiccian ceremony, it was definetly interesting but more...
Two days ago my older sister got married in a semi-traditional Wiccian ceremony, it was definetly interesting but more...
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I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And...
I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And...
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My So-Called Zen Practice
Barbara O’Brien, who writes the Buddhism section for About.Com, discusses her own experience with her years of practice. ...
Barbara O’Brien, who writes the Buddhism section for About.Com, discusses her own experience with her years of practice. ...
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Lesbian Rights Pioneers to be Legally Joined at Last
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to officiate at the private ceremony in his City Hall office before 50 invited guests....
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to officiate at the private ceremony in his City Hall office before 50 invited guests....
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More Big Issues Go To Supremes
The dispute over gun rights poses several important questions. Although the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, the court...
The dispute over gun rights poses several important questions. Although the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, the court...
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ARE EVIL ACTS CAUSED BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE LIKE SATAN?
A Buddhist monk and Baptist minister speak out on: VOICES OF FAITH: ARE EVIL ACTS CAUSED BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE LIKE SATAN?...
A Buddhist monk and Baptist minister speak out on: VOICES OF FAITH: ARE EVIL ACTS CAUSED BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE LIKE SATAN?...
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How Buddhists Understand Evil
Evil in Buddhism — How Buddhists Understand Evilby Barbara O’BrienEvil is a word many people use without thinking...
Evil in Buddhism — How Buddhists Understand Evilby Barbara O’BrienEvil is a word many people use without thinking...
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Loving Day — June 12
Loving Day commemorates the US Supreme Court decision on 12 June, 1967, that overturned Virginia’s miscegenation law and,...
Loving Day commemorates the US Supreme Court decision on 12 June, 1967, that overturned Virginia’s miscegenation law and,...
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Hollywood’s Decency Epidemic
Alas, even as the floodtides of rectitude threaten to give us all a cleansing soak, the Culture War’s most dogged mercenaries...
Alas, even as the floodtides of rectitude threaten to give us all a cleansing soak, the Culture War’s most dogged mercenaries...
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Change Your Mind Day 2008
We’d like to invite you to attend our virtual Change Your Mind Day 2008, on tricycle.com. Please enjoy our free offerings...
We’d like to invite you to attend our virtual Change Your Mind Day 2008, on tricycle.com. Please enjoy our free offerings...
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Chicago priest apologizes for Clinton comment
“I apologize for anyone who was offended and who thought it to be mockery,” he said at his church, St....
“I apologize for anyone who was offended and who thought it to be mockery,” he said at his church, St....
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Advice Concerning Dolgyal (Shugden)
TibetNet[Saturday, May 31, 2008 11:12]Dharamshala: Following a long and careful investigation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has...
TibetNet[Saturday, May 31, 2008 11:12]Dharamshala: Following a long and careful investigation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has...
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The Boy Scouts’ Free-Speech Fight
The City of Philadelphia wants the Boy Scouts to be prepared — prepared, that is, to change their views on homosexuality or...
The City of Philadelphia wants the Boy Scouts to be prepared — prepared, that is, to change their views on homosexuality or...
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Countries agree cluster bomb ban
Countries agree cluster bomb ban - CNN.com Some of the biggest makers and users of cluster bombs cited by human rights groups...
Countries agree cluster bomb ban - CNN.com Some of the biggest makers and users of cluster bombs cited by human rights groups...
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The Purpose of Buddhist Rituals — Barbara O’Brien
A reader once commented that he had been exploring Buddhism for about five years but could not relate to Buddhist rituals. He...
A reader once commented that he had been exploring Buddhism for about five years but could not relate to Buddhist rituals. He...
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Calif.: Same-sex marriages OK beginning June 17
The Associated Press: Calif.: Same-sex marriages OK beginning June 17 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barring a stay of a historic...
The Associated Press: Calif.: Same-sex marriages OK beginning June 17 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barring a stay of a historic...
