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Commentary: Centrism Is Not a Middle Way

By Ethan Nichtern — 2019

In a seemingly divided America, political “centrism” is gaining popularity. But, from a Buddhist perspective, Buddhist teacher Ethan Nichtern argues, centrism is actually a kind of extreme.

Read on www.lionsroar.com

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Rev. angel Kyodo williams—Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS - Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. Thrust into the Western socioeconomic framework that puts profit above all, coupled with a desire to perpetuate institutional existence, the Dharma has become beholden to commodification as inescapable and de rigueur.

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angel Kyodo williams
2018
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Future of Religion, Spirituality and Meditation

William’s 20-minute talk at the Findhorn Foundation in October 2018.

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William Bloom
2018
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Faith and the Fight Against Climate Change, Part 2

In a society increasingly driven by science and technology, world religions and the communities they inspire remain a vast and rock-solid political force.

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2020
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2021
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Introduction to Buddhism with Miles Neale

This two-part course addresses two major themes of Buddhism: individual liberation and social transformation.

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Miles Neale
2016
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Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War

Learning True Love, the autobiography of Sister Chân Không, stands alongside the great spiritual autobiographies of our century. It tells the story of her spiritual and personal odyssey, both in her homeland and in exile.

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Sister Chan Khong
2025
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Jane Hirshfield, "A Branch of Yellow Leaves"

Full lecture title: "A Branch of Yellow Leaves: Buddhism, the World and Poetry"

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Jane Hirshfield
2019
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Overcoming Dharma Doubts: Three Strategies

Doubt in early Buddhism is something we need to overcome in order to make progress along the path. I'll look at doubt in this video, and provide three different strategies we can use that can help with them.

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2021
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The Book of Character: An Anthology of Writings on Virtue from Islamic and Other Sources

The essential qualities of human nature, including faith, trust, repentance, forgiveness, compassion, and mercy, are discussed in this collection of writings by some of the world's great sages, both ancient and contemporary.

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Camille Helminski
2025
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Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation 1968–1998

Risks of Faith offers for the first time the best of noted theologian James H. Cone’s essays, including several new pieces.

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James H. Cone
2000
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