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Set Free on Holy Thursday
Today I watched a man go free. I was on a jury, trying him for the crime of breaking into an apartment and stealing a cell phone. We heard the…
Let Freedom Wring
I didn’t know it was Banned Books Week when I attended the discussion on Sherman Alexie’s National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian at the school…
Gays Are the New Niggers
40 years after the Stonewall riots, what Bayard Rustin means for American democracy.
Pilgrimage to Nowhere – In the Beginning
Would an activists’s life have been better spent in the in the lotus position, seeking no-self?
Marching the Buddha
If monks in Myanmar weren’t marching against the military junta this week, they would likely be taking part in a march of another kind. Late September is traditionally the time…
Take This Bread
An unlikely convert learns that believing and understanding don’t always arrive at the same time.
The Cross and the Color Line
They killed King Jesus and Dr. King. Can anything ever be all right again?
It Makes Great Press
A group of New England Buddhists finds Zen in the art of panhandling–but at what cost?
Losing Their Religion?
The Salvation Army has been taking money from the government for years. But at what cost?