Thanksgiving as Conundrum. Thanksgiving as Zen Koan.

      This year, 2020, our national American Thanksgiving holiday falls on the 26th of November. In some ways a propitious date. It is actually the anniversary for our first national day of Thanksgivi

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The Zen Priest Dreams a Trinity

    Many years ago when I began to take night classes at the local community college in what would turn out to be the beginning of my “academic” life, one of my favorites was a survey of art history.

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Kennedy, Memories, Dreams

    Fifty-seven years ago today, in Dallas, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. It was a lifetime ago. Actually two lifetimes. The parents of adults today were not yet born. Fifty-seve

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The Zen Priest Sings a Song of the Blessing Way

    A BLESSING WAY James Ishmael Ford IN A BEGINNING In the beginning was light. And dark. In the beginning the cosmos began to unfold within a great explosion. Time and space, galaxies of stars and p

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That New Universalism: A Smallest Meditation on a Religion of the Heart

    On Facebook religious historian Gregory Holmes Singleton was recommending a book Edward Baring, CONVERTS TO THE REAL: CATHOLICISM AND THE MAKING OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U

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