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Escaping the Kinetic Bounds of our Birth

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We are to a large extent what our parents make of us. While of course we are all magnificently unique beings, and have varying degrees of agency in terms of how we live our lives, it is hard to deny the effect that our upbringing has on the eventualities of our beliefs and ultimately our lives. I came across the child pictured above at a festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal in the summer of 2016, his mother grasping him by both shoulders from a crowd and shuttling him sideways to stand in front of my camera. As I look at this … Read on…

Delcaration of Theistic Independence

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I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in a higher being. I don’t believe in True Nature, The Absolute or any of the other mystical names atributed to God-like capacities. I don’t believe Jesus was the son of God any more than you or I might have been, should God have existed in the first place. I don’t believe that when we die we somehow float off and merge with The Mystery. I don’t believe there is a white light we move off to when we die and that should we move off towards that white light, we will … Read on…

Bibles for China – Driving Through the Evangelical South

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I’ve been driving for a couple of days now, leaving Chicago early Thursday morning, spending the night with an old friend of mine in Memphis, and then driving again today through Arkansas and eastern Texas to Palestine, TX (pronounced pal’-e-steen).  It’s been strange driving through the south.  I’ve never driven through Arkansas or Texas before but in doing so, I’ve come to understand the term “Bible Belt” better.  There are churches everywhere, scripture is quoted in the local newspapers, and there are countless radio shows devoted to Christianity.  The part I’m struggling with, however, is the evangelistic tendencies of the … Read on…

Travel Gleanings

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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” ~Martin Buber~ I’m on a plane returning to the states right now and thinking about what I’ve learned on this trip. What good is travel if it doesn’t fundamentally change who we are? This is the first time I’ve actually traveled around the world, east from California to Ukraine and eastward on to Turkey, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and now back home. The act of going around the world has a power of its own in that it ties everything together. When we go to a place and then … Read on…

Give Me Some Hate!

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I think I need to throw out a counterbalancing entry here because both sides of the coin seem to be true here for me, I love it and I am hating it! Yesterday was a rougher day. I did let myself sleep in while in Anuradapura but then took the bus to Kandy at a higher elevation, which turned into a 4 hour ride with traffic. The man at the tourism office in Colombo assured me that the “Inner-City” buses were comfortable with a lot of leg room and that I could recline my seat. Hardly. Indian Deluxe buses (which … Read on…