Imagine Peace: Oneness Day Petition

Oneness Day Petition – The Text

I declare:

1. That the message We Are All One, inter-related, inter-connected and inter-dependent … [link]

David Loy: Update and Latest Article

The Interfaith Summer Institute has invited David Loy to speak at a conference it is hosting in Vancouver in March: 3/5/10 to 3/7/10. If he accepts, he may also do something with Vancouver BPF while he is in town. Meanwhile you can read a draft of his latest article, posted below.

…Gaza and the Ritual of Mutual Destruction

by Hozan Alan Senauke

Gaza is burning. The violence must end before anything else can happen. We can all think nice thoughts about right and wrong, who acted first, who acted worst. We can argue about politics — national, international, geopolitical, corporate. Whatever intellectual thread my mind pulls at quickly comes to a hopeless tangle. [article]

Five spiritual trends to watch for in 2009

Eastern spirituality will flower

“… global Buddhism is growing more socially ‘engaged’ (as Christianity, Judaism and Islam always have been). In the past two years, formerly hermit-like Buddhist monks have been at the heart of protests against brutal regimes in Myanmar and China.” [article]

Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion

The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world religions – but sometimes you would never know it. Instead, religion is associated with violence, intolerance and seems more preoccupied by dogmatic or sexual orthodoxy.

[article] [Charter for Compassion]

Obama on What He Believes

The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama’s faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for U.S. Senate in Illinois. The column she wrote about the interview has been quoted and misquoted many times over, but she’d never before published the full transcript in a major publication. [Read it here.]