The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That’s unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take a look at them. When the Roman emperor Constantine adopted Christianity, he…
Yesterday Brian, Melissa, Katie and I met in my home for our sangha’s second Saturday of the month meditation. We listened to a talk Thich Nhat Hanh gave 30 years ago, in which he advocated…
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“But we all learn from the Midrash the essential lesson of human and social responsibility. True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. …
Yet a Maoist doctrine that played so vital role during the revolutionary years, bringing about a historically necessary revolution in the social state of China, paradoxically had disastrous human and political consequences when it was…