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Bent Too Far: A Missionary, A Bookstore, A Change of Heart
In my last life, back in the late 1990s when I was a fundamentalist missionary in Papua New Guinea, I came upon the online magazine Killing the Buddha. Although I…
September Buddha-killing Update
Whenever something we publish on KtB prompts a surprising response, I like to take a little time and then weigh in to the conversation editorially speaking. Last week’s feature, “White…
This Mutant Genre
The introduction to a new anthology Radiant Truths: Essential …. Essays on American Belief
KtB at Haverford College
What Buddhas need killing next? On February 9th, KtB Senior Editor Nathan Schneider will be at Haverford College near Philadelphia to talk with students and faculty about the magazine, religion…
Tin Anniversary Glamour
The Tin Anniversary Spectacular—celebrating ten years of KtB—has come and gone. For those of you (and there were lots!) who joined us at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn on December…
“Killing the Buddha,” Except Not
Wow. It gives you all you need to know about the path to enlightenment.
Be a Tin Anniversary Sponsor!
Can’t make it to the December 7th Tin Anniversary Spectacular in Brooklyn? Well, there’s still an opportunity to show your support for Killing the Buddha. Become a sponsor of the…
Can’t Make It on Dec. 7th? You Can Still Be a Sponsor!
We know that, unfortunately, a lot of our readers won’t be able to make it to the Brooklyn Tin Anniversary Gala on December 7th. It’s our blessing and curse that…
Exhaustive Exhaustion
Jorge Luis Borges wrote of a “certain Chinese encyclopaedia” in which taxonomy had run amok. “The animals,” we are told, “are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed,…
Dying for USA Today
USA Today‘s Faith & Reason blog has caught the deathy-essay-contest fever: Got time to kill? How about crafting an essay on death for a contest where the prizes include publication…
Should KtB Be “Killing the Jesus” Instead?
Mr. or Ms. “Anonymous” from Brooklyn wrote in today with a comment that goes very much to the heart of what we do and strive for: Having subscribed to your…
A Preview of KtB’s Prison Panel Saturday
What’s on tap for KtB’s “Prison-Spirituality Complex” panel discussion this Saturday night? Redemption stories that have shaped America’s prisons. Fantasies of solitude that have made solitary confinement the American way of…
Attack of the God Blogs
Lately I’ve been waking up with these terrible cold sweats. Reptilian reflexes bounce me out of bed and to my laptop across the room, where my fingers pull up a…
