Jesus, Jazz, Buddhism

06/18/2015

Having this pope at this time is in itself the most promising feature of our time. We Christians call it “providential.”...He speaks also from and to humanity and the Earth...May we celebrate and follow authentic leadership! It is possible...It is possible, just possible, that June 18, 2015 will be remembered as the turning point, when humankind began to come to its senses.

-- John B. Cobb, Jr. in Pando Populus

Pope Francis and the Environment: Why His Climate Encyclical Matters from Yale F&ES on Vimeo .

06/18/2015

Jesus Jazz and Buddhism

06/16/2015

For profile of Kalief Browder in The New Yorker, click here .

06/14/2015

"I walked onto the beach into a setting sun that painted everything in orange acrylic—waves breaking hard on the rocks, forest crowding the beach in an unbroken line running northwest to southeast, fog covering the beach like a shroud, light rain dimpling the creek losing itself in the breakers."

-- Paul O. Ingram

Jesus Jazz and Buddhism

06/13/2015

"Platform is a political project, an aural revolution for egalitarianism whose consequences should be reaching beyond the music scene."

How to act according to the future in the 21st Century? Taking up strategies in economics, theory, philosophy, and art, Fixing the Future looks to provide useful alternatives for thinking the...

06/11/2015

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel. And so when we speak about my sexuality or my gender, as we do (and as we must), we mean something complicated by it. Neither of these is precisely a possession, but both are to be understood as modes of being dispossessed, ways of being for another, or, indeed, by virtue of another.”

-- Judith Butler

Jesus Jazz and Buddhism

06/10/2015

http://www.processphilosophy.org/what-makes-life-meaningful-john-cobbs-theological-reminiscences.html

06/09/2015

"These men, who committed what we would consider violent and horrible crimes, still had inside themselves those kinds of places. Deep down and hidden beneath the things they’d done, they still knew who they were at the core of their being; they still knew themselves to be loved and to be in relationship. Within all of us there is such a place...It’s not surprising that meditation could get someone in touch with this internal place. In fact, Anglican theologian Sarah Coakley argues that the doctrine of the Trinity came about at least in part from the Christian experience of prayer—especially the experience of contemplative prayer."

-- Teri Daily

A few years ago I was asked to speak to a group on the topic of “inner beauty.” As I prepared for the talk, I thought of some people who are, for me, icons of inner beauty: Mother Teresa,...

05/31/2015

Jesus Jazz and Buddhism

05/25/2015

In my case, doing the thing you think you cannot do was learning to be a caregiver in the face of my husband’s recent, sudden illness...If, as Eleanor says, "a woman is like a tea bag--you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water," then I was one terrified tea bag.

-- Patricia Adams Farmer

http://www.processphilosophy.org/inhabit-your-situation-epictetus-eleanor-roosevelt-and-whitehead.html

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to...

05/25/2015

Jesus Jazz and Buddhism

05/23/2015

in addition to the fact that sometimes they are just fun to listen to..

http://www.jesusjazzbuddhism.org/democracy-is-so-much-better-when-its-funky-four-constructive-functions-of-popular-songs.html

Jesus Jazz and Buddhism