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New Article at Religion Dispatches: “A Religion Scholar Gets It Wrong on...
I like Stephen Prothero. We’ve met a couple of times, and I keep up with him on social media. I’ve also interviewed him, and genuinely think the Boston University religion prof has done an enormous lot...
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New Article at Religion Dispatches: “Who Would the Buddha Bomb?”
My latest article for Religion Dispatches looks at a few disparate conversations about war and peace that are currently taking place in American Buddhist circles — including one that has come out of...
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CNN Quotes Me and One of My Essays in a New Article About the Amtrak 188 Crash
Daniel Burke is one of our greatest religion journalists, and an absolutely wonderful guy as well. I got to know him when I was working as an academic and minister, and spoke to him for articles like...
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New Video Interview with Saving Mes Aynak Director Brent E. Huffman at...
I was honoured to interview director Brent E. Huffman recently about his important new film Saving Mes Aynak, which documents the struggle to protect a Buddhist archaeological site in Afghanistan from...
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New Article at Medium: “Why PBS, and Viewers Like You, Must Continue Saving...
I’ve posted my latest article over at Medium, and hope you will take a look. It’s about the recent scheduling threats to the venerable PBS documentary series POV and Independent Lens, which have taken...
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One of My Essays Quoted in Richard Polt’s New Book The Typewriter Revolution:...
Richard Polt’s new book The Typewriter Revolution: A 21st Century Typist’s Companion comes out this November, and I’m delighted to share that it quotes from my essay “Green Machine”. Originally written...
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Must-Clicks for the Week of November 21st, 2015
[Hi, everybody! Going forward, I’ll be writing one post a week, on Saturdays, spotlighting pieces of news and opinion media — readings, videos, podcasts, infographics, photos, etc. — that have been...
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On Punditry, Implicit Bias, and Campus Racism
Generally-speaking — and findings below will tell you why — there is plenty to be dissatisfied, frustrated, and even downright angry about if you’re a student of color on a college or university campus...
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VLOG: “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
[As I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve started blogging again, this time with a schedule of weekly posts. Saturday posts round-up the week’s “must-click” news and opinion media — readings, videos,...
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Must-Clicks for the Week of November 28th, 2015
[Each week, “Must-Clicks” spotlights pieces of news and opinion media — readings, videos, podcasts, infographics, photos, etc. — that have been essential to my own understanding and I think are worth...
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Meeting Apu Again for the First Time
Growing up as the son of an artist/actress and a theatre professor at a small liberal college, I was blessed with early and unique exposure to the arts. My father’s involvement with the visiting artist...
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VLOG: “We Should All Be Feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Today’s vlog (which you can watch below or at the Internet Archive) is about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists (which you can find at a library near you with WorldCat, or purchase...
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Must-Clicks for the Week of December 5th, 2015
[Each week, “Must-Clicks” spotlights pieces of news and opinion media — readings, videos, podcasts, infographics, photos, etc. — that have been essential to my own understanding and I think are worth...
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Hello! Thank you for visiting the site. Unfortunately, my wife has had a death in her family, so there won’t be any posts this week as we attend to things. I anticipate a return to blogging by this...
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On Punditry, Implicit Bias, and Campus Racism
Generally-speaking — and findings below will tell you why — there is plenty to be dissatisfied, frustrated, and even downright angry about if you’re a student of color on a college or university campus...
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VLOG: “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
[Today is my first video-blog, or “vlog.” I suspect that most vlogs, like today’s, will feature me riffing about what I’m reading. During this year’s Banned Books Week, I posted these pictures, which...
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Why PBS, and Viewers Like You, Must Continue Saving ‘POV’ and ‘Independent Lens’
[NOTE: This piece was first published on September 8, 2015, at Medium. It was subsequently named a “Must-Read” by MediaShift, and shared on social media by Los Angeles Times TV columnist Robert Lloyd,...
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