So they “got him.” As someone who is trying to live by the Gospel of Jesus and the Dharma of Buddha, should I join the general dancing in the streets and jubilation in the media? I can’t. Yes, I feel a sense of relief – relief that a source of suffering and of violence is [...]
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A Breakfast Conversation with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
I had the privilege of being present for a breakfast conversation with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam at the center of the storm swirling around Park51 – the proposed Muslim Center near Ground Zero. The conversation was sponsored by, and took place at, the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Our breakfast gathering [...]
Religious Violence
A comment on the rise of religious violence and terrorism that seems to make a lot of sense to me: “The secular world has to have enough justice in it for one not to have to constantly invoke God’s justice against the injustice of the profane.” That’s from Aijaz Ahmad. To which Tony Eagleton adds: [...]