In the torpor of Tucson’s summer heat, it can be hard to think. I walk or bike along the Santa Cruz River at dawn, or even shoot hoops in the park. Then I hole up and focus on survival as temperatures soar. But here are three book reflections and some thoughts that simmer in my heat-muddled...
The Parliament of the World’s Religions first convened in 1893 in Chicago as part of the World Columbian Exposition. They met in what is now the Art Institute of Chicago. One hundred forty years later, Tessa Bielecki and I attended Chicago’s Parliament of the World’s religions at Chicago’s McCormick Place. I was eager to learn about relations...
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. —Martin Luther King, Jr.The people I encountered at Chicago’s Parliament of the World’s Religions, speakers and attendees, were tips of icebergs. Returning home and learning more about them and their affiliations, I am amazed at the quiet flotilla of virtue and social transformation that they...
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietmanese Buddhist monk and renowned author, visited Boulder, Colorado regularly when I lived in Colorado in the eighties. Exiled from Vietnam because he did not support the North or the South in the war, he traveled the world as an ambassador for peace. He spent...