Posts

Faith does not consist in believing something wonderful . . .

What is the Philosophy of Movement? by Thomas Nail — A recommended paper

Exploring the important Shin Buddhist text “The Tannisho” from a Unitarian and Universalist perspective — A series of Wednesday Evening Zoom Conversations

The parable of the mischievously wise physics teacher

On baseball gloves and liberal religion

A few photos of Great Livermere Church and mere in winter

Gold, frankincense and myrrh or a teapot, an empty jam tin, and a cabbage leaf? A short, secular religious thought for Epiphany

John Keat’s ‘negative capability’ and COVID-19

The New Being — A short, secular religious thought for Christmas Day

An Advent meditation on Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Oxen”, in preparation for Christmas Eve

How to pray to a dead God—A recommended essay by Ed Simon for the online Aeon magazine

“Let it flow”—A brief Advent meditation on true-entrusting (drawing on an intimation of Henry Bugbee's)

An unexpected, direct link between Shin Buddhism and the Cambridge Unitarian Church

A post-script to my previous post — Amida Buddha, buddha of infinite light and life

That-Which-Is-To-Come — A short Advent meditation on Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming”

Omnia migrant — A short, Advent meditation on the fundamental condition of movement and migration

An introduction to, and first walk through of, the classic Shin Buddhist text, The Tannisho