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I write, speak, and do workshops for people of any faith or none. For the family sitting in the pew on a Sunday morning with kids who really don’t want to be there. I am a Theological technologist—an AI Ethicist and a “killer” storyteller.
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Eighty Acres of Dharma (opens the original)
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On April 18, 1951, Vinoba Bhave visited the Harijan colony in Pochampally, a village of seven hundred families in present-day Telangana. Two-thirds of these families had no land. At fifty-five, Bhave was an experienced follower of Gandhi, shaped by years spent in ashrams and prisons. That afternoon, as he had done in many villages during his journey across India, he sat down and asked the people what they needed.Their answer was simple and direct: eighty acres, half irrigated and half dry, enoug
The Monk Rome Silenced for Reading the Bible Too Carefully (opens the original)
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On 15 November 1890, in a former Turkish slaughterhouse on the edge of Jerusalem’s Old City, a French Dominican friar named Marie-Joseph Lagrange opened a school with one ambition: to bring the full machinery of modern historical study, languages, archaeology, comparative literature, and the careful dating of manuscripts, to bear on the Bible. Lagrange believed, against suspicion on every side, that rigorous history would deepen Christian faith rather than dissolve it.For a while, it worked. He
This beautiful earth that is shared by 8.3 billion Who Leads? By Julie Peller Ph.D. (opens the original)
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Green JunctionEverything that people consume, use, and create comes from the earth’s resources. In the sustainability course I teach, we often reflect on human technological advancements over the past 100 years and the strain on the earth’s resources. For example, less than 20% of homes in rural America had indoor plumbing in 1920, according to the US Census records. The 1920s were the decade when car ownership increased, and by 1929, 60% of families owned cars. All technological advances requir
Learning to Close the Door (opens the original)
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In late May 1966, a slight Vietnamese monk, 39 years old, walked through the gatehouse of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. He was on a speaking tour arranged by Al Hassler of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He had come to tell Americans what the newspapers left out about the war destroying his country. The South Vietnamese government already disliked him. His friends feared that going home might mean prison or worse.He spent two days with Thomas Merton. The next day Merton told his novices
A Cup of Tea Is Not a Prompt (opens the original)
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In June 1964, a Trappist monk who rarely left his Kentucky monastery received his abbot’s permission and traveled to New York for a cup of tea.Thomas Merton was forty-nine. The man he went to see, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, was ninety-three and staying at Butler Hall near Columbia University. Suzuki had done more than anyone to carry Zen to English-speaking readers, and the two men had been writing to each other since the late 1950s. Merton had read the books. He knew the arguments. He could have a
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