Happy Passover (Hebrew: Pesach or Pesakh)!
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National Nonviolence Week
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Happy Easter!
Catholic, Orthodox (Coptic, Greek, and Russian), and Lutheran views (which I’ve included for regional reasons and because Lutherism is one of the earliest–perhaps the earliest–of the Protestant denominations). If I’ve left out a doctrinal view you prefer, feel free to post it in a reply–I’d love to see some other beliefs. Germanic/Pagan traditions
Happy St. Patty’s Day!
St. Patrick (Plus, some fact vs. fiction.
Tibet
I’m in Chicago, working on my novel and some short stories and preparing for my reading at PCA/ACA next week while my wife attends an important Intellectual Freedom committee meeting with ALA. I plan to post about my pop-culture conference in San Fransisco, so I had intended to spend this week posting a preview ofContinue reading “Tibet”
Happy Thanksgiving!
¡Feliz Dia de los Muertos!
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Happy Halloween!
More metta to Maynmar
I’m sorry to say things have gotten worse in Burma (Myanmar). UPDATE: Things have gone from worse to deadly. Reportedly, even monks have been killed. For more information, please visit the Democratic Voice of Burma. Even more than before, I still fervently hope the Burmese people and the governments of the world can find aContinue reading “More metta to Maynmar”
Metta to Myanmar
Thynn Thynn, the woman I consider my first formal teacher in Buddhism, is from Burma (technically, Myanmar, but she refers to herself as Burmese). I’ve since shifted my focus to Mahayana practices (and some studies in Vajrayana), but I continually return to Thynn Thynn’s teachings on mindfulness when I feel a need to sit, toContinue reading “Metta to Myanmar”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 