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	<title>How a Buddhist Christian Sees It</title>
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	<description>Paul Knitter&#039;s multifaith perspectives</description>
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		<title>Depraved Because Deprived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those lines from West Side Story&#8217;s rollicking song, &#8220;Office Krupke&#8221;  have come back to tease me over the decades since I first heard them. Are we depraved because we&#8217;re deformed? Or because we&#8217;re deprived?  Some Christians, given their understanding of original sin and our fallen nature, would hold to &#8220;deformed.&#8221;  I suspect that that&#8217;s an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2012/01/24/depraved-because-deprived/</link>
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		<title>IPhone Idolatry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I finally bought myself an iPhone.  And since then, I’ve been playing with it and delighting in the expanse of freedom I have to access all kinds of information, instantly. And then I read this paragraph in an article by Andrew J. Bacevich in a recent issue of Commonweal: “The Information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/09/13/iphone-idolatry/</link>
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		<title>We are &#8220;the tanglible presence of God on earth&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, as I go about the reading and research that are part of my job, I come across a statement or a passage that touches my Buddhist-Christian heart.  Here&#8217;s one of them, from literary critic Terry Eagleton.  It captures, at least for me, the unitive, non-dual understanding of God as &#8220;no-thing,&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/08/20/we-are-the-tanglible-presence-of-god-on-earth/</link>
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		<title>Prophecy and Credibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prophets are generally pains in the butt.  That means that they generally have a hard time with credibility – people tend not to take them seriously.  Prophetic, or counter-cultural or counter-governmental,  messengers are considered to be “way out … unrealistic… utopian… dreamers.”  Not the kind of people to be taken seriously.  Simply, they’re weird. All [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/07/30/prophecy-and-credibility/</link>
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		<title>Master and Disciple &#8212; Buddhist &amp; Christian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyday I receive via email from a Tibetan Buddhist organization  a &#8220;Glimpse&#8221; for the day. Today’s “Glimpse” helps me, I think, come to a deeper sense of what it means to be a Christian, or of what it means to call Jesus Christ my savior. Tibetan Buddhism understands the relationship between the disciple and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/06/20/master-and-disciple-buddhist-christian/</link>
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		<title>A Buddhist-Christian Reflection on Pentecost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. …. we were all given to drink of one Spirit.”  I Cor 12: 7, 13 The Spirit is real.  The Spirit is given as drink.  Drink the Spirit.  And let the Spirit manifest in me, as me. The Spirit needs me to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/06/12/a-buddhist-christian-reflection-on-pentecost/</link>
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		<title>The Miracle of Mindfulness and the Miracle of “Being in Christ Jesus”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thich Nhat Hanh speaks of “the miracle of mindfulness.”  Indeed, as so many people are discovering, the practice of mindfulness does have what seem to be miraculous powers. Something happens when we succeed in really being mindful of the thoughts and feelings and reactions that crowd into and try to take possession of how we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/06/05/the-miracle-of-mindfulness-and-the-miracle-of-%e2%80%9cbeing-in-christ-jesus%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>“The appalling silence of the good people” – A Buddhist Dialogue with Martin Luther King, Jr.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times of May 15, Michelle Alexander wrote an op-ed piece that hit me soundly in my Buddhist-Christian stomach. In her essay, she comments critically on a recent good news/bad news scenario: many politicians, including Republicans, are calling for a reduction of mass incarceration (good news), but not out of any concern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/05/15/%e2%80%9cthe-appalling-silence-of-the-good-people%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-a-buddhist-dialogue-with-martin-luther-king-jr/</link>
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		<title>How Does A Buddhist-Christian Feel About Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s Death?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/05/03/how-does-a-buddhist-christian-feel-about-osama-bin-laden%e2%80%99s-death/</link>
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		<title>Obama and Interfaith: Multi-Religious Literacy through Multi-Religious Activity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has often been accused of not carrying through on promises or projects.   That criticism would not apply to the promises he has made to make the White House’s “faith-based initiatives” into “multi-faith-based initiatives.” Back on June 8, 2010, I did a blog titled “We’ve Got a Friend: Obama and Interfaith.” It summarized a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2011/03/18/obama-and-interfaith-multi-religious-literacy-through-multi-religious-activity/</link>
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