I SPENT THE YEAR AFTER COLLEGE in an AmeriCorps program that placed me in the Task Force for the Homeless in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. During my time there I served at several different transitional homes, emergency shelters, and soup kitchens. It was the end of a string of social-service work for me, which started several [...]
AS I have written about here before, Dana Wiki is a website that I started in 2008 to help Buddhist organizations get involved in social service. Toward the end of last year Dana Wiki’s DNS registration expired and I did a small WePay fundraiser to re-register its domain name.
I’m happy [...]
ON 18 July 2011, Sam Mowe wrote about diversity within American Buddhism for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review‘s blog in an article titled “Tell Us Your Story.” One of the comments to that post led to another post on Tricycle‘s blog by Monty McKeever, “Why Is Buddhism So Damned Expensive?” That comment read, [...]
THE question of Buddhist ministry has been on my mind almost constantly since attending a friend’s ordination to the Unitarian-Universalist ministry earlier this month. Traditional Buddhist societies had monastics and teachers—with the exception of Japan and Tibet, which also had non-celibate ordination lineages. Now five schools in the United States are offering graduate-level programs for [...]
LEWIS RICHMOND has been kind enough to cite me in his most recent article for the Huffington Post, “An Ancient Buddhist Model For Today’s World,” which I helped him research. In it, he discusses Vimalakirti as a model for practicing Buddhism in everyday life.
