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Reigniting Our Free-Religious Tradition: From Being to Buildings and Back Again

Imaoka Shin’ichirō-sensei’s New Year Message for 1980

A philosophy of wonder born of an ancient disappointment

Celebrating Christmas Day without a founder: Jesus, Śākyamuni Buddha and the Great Life

The Christmas Fair on Parker's Piece, Cambridge

Kiosk at Night on Jesus Green, Cambridge

Wednesday Photo: Sidney Street, Cambridge (one of the shops the city would rather you didn’t see)

A letter from Nishida Tenkō-san (Nishida Ichitaro) to Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Wednesday Photo (s): When the rain comes

Life is a series of encounters (with people)

Some thoughts on “Christian Mysticism” by Imaoka Shin’ichirō (1881-1988)

Print-outs of the two free-religious translation projects in my life, Selected Essays by Imaoka Shin’ichiro-sensei, and Norbert Fabián Čapek‘s “To the Sunny Shore: A guide to living joyfully"

A December 2025 update on the first English translation of the 1939 edition of Norbert Fabián Čapek’s “To the Sunny Shore: A Guide to Living Joyfully” (K slunnému brehu: Prúvodce do radostného Zivota)

Wednesday Photo(s): Cambridge at night—channelling Josef Sudek

The Eternal Buddha is no one else but the Eternal Christ—a talk given to a United Reformed Church Advent online retreat called “Waiting for the light” on December 2nd, 2025

When you get to 60 and people start to call you “elderly”, this is when your “real” life begins