Killing the Buddha

How Occupy Wall Street occupies your heart.

Love is a straight path—with traffic.

A new testament from Zora Neale Hurston.

What a radical Victorian feminist really knew about love.

“People were getting auctioned up on stage but I didn’t see anything I wanted nor did I think I should be for sale.”

From Believer, Beware: Gender-bending love at Bible camp.

When the love of God isn’t the right kind of love.

A drive through Manhattan with a jazzman in the world of ideas crammed in the back seat.

From Essential Stories: God, Love, Death, Joy, Suffering, Beauty.

From Essential Stories: What is the essence of being?

Lost in the crosshairs, the gun was a little too big and the hunter a little too small.

This is what you do when you love someone. Not just like. Only if you’re in love.

Thus spoke Buddha’s mother: Fine, fine, be enlightened. But would it kill you to call now and then?

A tale of love, loss and submersion.

Chew on this. How do we keep our faith when the sun, like love, abandons us?

It’s all Greek to them. Sacraments are just obstacles when a family’s tradition is at stake.