Buddhist 'People Of Color Sanghas', Diversity Efforts Address Conflicts About ...
This article is a part of Faith Shift, a Huffington Post series on how changes in demographics, culture, politics and theology are transforming religion in America.www.huffingtonpost.com
Obama Asks for Prayer on Budget Deal
BANGKOK, Thailand - Taking a break from deficit negotiations for a whirlwind tour of southeast Asia, President Obama joked this afternoon as he toured a sacred Buddhist temple that he could use some prayer to help reach a budget deal. ... We send ...abcnews.go.com
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama jokes that prayer needed to resolve fiscal cliff
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, tour the Viharn of the Reclining Buddha with Chaokun Suthee Thammanuwat, the Dean, Faculty of Buddhism Assistant... (Associated Press) ... Obama said he ...www.newser.com
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Fiscal cliff follows Obama
"I believe in prayer when I go to church back home, and If a Buddhist monk is wishing me well, I'll take whatever good vibes he can give me to try to deal with some challenges back home.www.google.com
My Take: The danger of calling behavior 'biblical'
... Christians who well realized this about themselves. Let's see Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson - you know, just people who happened to be involved in writing the U.S. Const itution. ..... There is certainly some cultural ...religion.blogs.cnn.com
A photographer's restless lifetime of paying attention
For those who recognize his name mostly because of "Cape Light," the 1979 book that pioneered the use of color but whose scenes of summer cottages and ice cream shops are usually read through a haze of nostalgia, the retrospective book and a related ...www.bendbulletin.com
In Corner of Myanmar, Muslims Seek Relief
The Rohingyas, which number around 800,000, comprise less than 1% of Myanmar's total population, but around a fifth of the people in Rakhine state, where tensions with local Buddhists run deep. Since 1982, the government doesn't classify the Rohingyas ...online.wsj.com
Museum and Gallery Listings for Nov. 16-22
20) This invigorating exhibition is dominated by big, brash collagelike paintings, thick with color and studded with rhinestones that depict cacophonous landscapes, spatially skewed interiors and, best of all, images of imperious black women among ...www.nytimes.com
TEXAS FAITH: What did the 2012 election results mean for people of faith?
There are other reasons for rejoicing, but then, I am a feminist, a Christian, and a progressive who hangs out a lot with folks historically pushed to the margins by the Establishment - children, women and men of color, LGBT folk, the poor, and the ...religionblog.dallasnews.com
Baysiders Brainstorm Old Arcata Road Safety – November 16, 2012
Since appeals to community, safety and personal responsibility are not as effective as lumps of asphalt in getting people to slow down, the speeder-beleagured Baysiders are happy with the four speed humps on Old Arcata Road, and want another one ...www.arcataeye.com
Santa Barbara Museum of Art reflects on 'The Artful Recluse'
It ties deeply into Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. It is a way through which, in the 17th century, people could be disengaged but communicate their most important inner feelings in a time of crisis.www.latimes.com
Why I think Apple is Building An Ad Hoc Social Network
... An Ad Hoc Social Network. Steve Jobs was a Buddhist, a religion founded on the concept of the impermanence of all things.www.cultofmac.com
The election of diversity
The Japanese-born woman is all set to be the first Buddhist and the first Asian-American woman in the Senate. With Christians ... Joining them will be Sean Patrick Maloney, who'll be the first openly gay congressman from New York, and Mark Takano, D ...www.mndaily.com
"We're Not a Fad, a Fancy, or a Year"
Mazie Hirono became the first Asian-American woman elected to the Senate, bringing with her a diverse and American history - Hirono is an immigrant and will also be the first Buddhist in Congress. ... However, it would be false to say that the outcome ...www.smithsophian.com
'Going for Gold' at SAM has a fine luster
Breathtaking fabrics woven or embroidered in gold thread adorn the gallery walls. The shimmering 18th-century kesa, modeled on the robe of Buddha and worn by Buddhist holy people, were made by taking gold threads and wrapping them around silk fibers to ...seattletimes.com
Ladyboy water-volleyball tourney a huge success
Both Buddhism and Christianity share generosity among their basic respective tenets. So with ... Unless their families are supportive and can afford higher education, many have little choice but to work in bars or salons - like many Thai young people ...www.pattayamail.com
Mark Takano part of increasingly diverse Congress
Takano is the first openly gay member of Congress from California and the first openly gay person of color elected to Congress nationwide.blog.pe.com
A lifetime of speaking through her artwork
(Though she practices Buddhist meditation and mindfulness, Alter considers herself Jewish). These beautifully ... It now offers support to female and transgender artists, and has a large number of people of color on its staff and board. Since 2007 ...www.philly.com
A Jingoist Media Foments Violence in Burma's Arakan State
Encouraged by a rabidly irresponsible nationalist press, the Buddhist nationalists that constitute Burma's majority population, along with the ethnic Rakhine minority, have adopted a siege mentality that Rohingyas, whom they call "Bengali" illegal ...www.irrawaddy.org
Creating Environments for 'Rise of the Guardians'
Below, Mr. Hanenberger and Mr. Ramsey offer a closer look and explain how Buddhism and American Indian beliefs factored into a movie with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.www.nytimes.com
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