On Zen in America, Shunryu Suzuki, and the San Francisco Zen Center
Michael Downing teaches creative writing at Tufts University. This conversation features a deep dive into Michael’s nonfiction book Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisc...
5 Apr 20221h 1min
On Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance
A veteran journalist, essayist, and award-winning education writer, Linda K. Wertheimer is the author of Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. The book focuses on public schools’...
4 Apr 202258min
On Ashram Life, the Bhagavad Gita, and Teaching Yoga
Raghunath tours the world, leading yoga workshops, yoga teacher trainings, kirtans, and the practical applications of yogic philosophy. He annually takes a group on pilgrimage through holy places of I...
1 Apr 20221h 3min
On Leaving Hasidism
Shulem Deen is a writer, journalist, and author of the award-winning memoir All Who Go Do Not Return. He is a regular contributor to the Forward, and in 2015 was listed in the Forward 50, an annual li...
31 Mar 202256min
On the Death Penalty
Griffin Hardy is the Communications Director for Ministry Against the Death Penalty, founded by Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
30 Mar 202252min
On Israel, Palestine, and Christian Zionism
Dr. Daniel Hummel is a scholar, writer, researcher, and teacher of religion, politics, and foreign policy in the United States and the modern Middle East. He is currently a Robert M. Kingdon Fellow at...
29 Mar 202256min
On the Rinzai Way and Korinji Monastery
Meido Roshi is the abbot of Korinji monastery in Wisconsin. In 2008 Meido Roshi received inka shomei ("mind seal"), designating him an 86th-generation Zen dharma heir and a 48th-generation holder of t...
28 Mar 202252min
On Japanese Buddhist Art
Michael Vanhartingsveldt is a contributing columnist at Buddhistdoor Global. He works full-time at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. He did his masters in East Asian Art Business at Sotheby’s Ins...
25 Mar 202251min
