The “3rd World Meeting Teresian Mysticsm and Interreligious Dialogue” concluded over 27 and 28 July with a good-spirited bond of friendship
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Beyond mere goodwill: Keeping authenticity in interfaith dialogues in Avila
This week’s Buddhist-Catholic conference in Avila is a unique opportunity to shape a “Buddhist theology of religions”
Confronting Opus Dei in Spain as a Buddhist Woman
Spanish Buddhist Dr. María Drolma shares her troubling encounters with members of Opus Dei in Spain
Louvre Abu Dhabi’s “Letters of Light”: A Dialogue of Universal Belief and History
Running from 13 September 2023 to 14 January 2024, “Letters of Light” is a temporary exhibit at Louvre Abu Dhabi featuring some of the most important, beautiful, and oldest manuscripts of the Quran, the Gospels and the Bible
The World Council of Churches and Pope Francis on Vesak 2023: Muddled Messaging or Mission?
The World Council of Churches’ Vesak 2023 message might clash with the Catholic Church’s sense of mission beyond interfaith dialogue
World Religion Day in Hong Kong, 2023
“Healing the World” is an ever more urgent theme for the Bahai-hosted World Religion Day in Hong Kong
The Colloquium of Six Religious Leaders of Hong Kong: Lunar New Year Message, 2023
The esteemed Colloquium of Six Religious Leaders of Hong Kong releases its message for 2023’s Lunar New Year of the Hare
Christian Zen: Unlikely and Unorthodox, or Universal?
I recently received unfortunate news. A Buddhist-Christian interfaith event organized by the International Centre for Teresian-Sanjuanist Studies (CITeS), The University of Mysticism in Ávila, has been cancelled. The event was supposed to take place in July 2020, before the pandemic forced the conference to be held on July 2021. After the recent surge in cases […]
A Prayer for All Who Are Sick
Yakushi the Medicine Buddha by Enku, 17th Century My friend Sister Petra is a Christian nun who also practices Zen Buddhism with our sangha. A few months ago she told me, “During the pandemic, I’ve been praying for everybody who’s sick, in body, mind, or spirit.” I was moved by this, and it has continued […]
As Benedictines
We see a single incandescent light beneath the pond,a flash at the bottom of four stemmed glasses, as if we were still in the Orleanais,where sins are garnished with clams and stewed in the finest vichyssoise. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The […]