Rusty Ring

I ran into a Zen axe-grinder on Twitter a few months ago. The experience continues to turn in my thoughts. I didn't know this guy (I ...

Here's a good meditation for sojourners my age. Here at the crossroads of life, when most of ours is behind us, and what we have ...

A few days ago I saw a humorous meme involving Ouija boards on a Facebook group for members of the church I grew up in. The fact that I ...

This week I learned two things: that something called "the Buddha-like mindset" is trending among young people in China a...

I'm just catching up with David Hayward, a cartoonist who has published under the provocative nom de guerre of The Naked P...

'Way back in March of 2012 CE (how strange to have such a deep vault) I reviewed Zen at War , Brian Daizen Victoria's exposé o...

I learned this meditation from AJ Smith of Restoration Church, an urban Evangelical congregation in Philadelphia featured on Gimlet...

Back in the Duhbya years, a little book called America Needs a Buddhist President appeared on bookstore shelves. It consisted of a p...

(Was walking by the church I grew up in when I saw this sandwich board on the sidewalk outside. Centering Prayer is one of several Ch...

One of my Franciscan brothers in Québec, a friar named Henri, presented seminars on Christian practice to groups of Catholic seniors – o...

We need hermits. OK, it's a self-serving point. But trust me: leave it to the priests and temples alone, and they'll botch this...

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(The following is an excerpt from "Rough Around the Edges: A Journey Through Washington's Borderlands." Copyright RK Henderson...