June 6, 2021 Zoom Sermon

June 6, 2021 Zoom Sermon

I read an interesting May 25, 2021 article in Newsweek about the progress of COVID-19 vaccinations in India. The Newsweek article focused on one village, Sisoda Village, which is in India’s Uttar Pradesh State. This caught my eye because Uttar Pradesh is where...

Feb. 2, 2020 Sermon

Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, Bernice A. King, is the CEO of the King Center. And, on this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, she weighed in on a polarized America. In MLK’s absence, is there anyone better to inquire about how he might react to our current issues...

Feb. 16, 2020 Sermon

Feb. 16, 2020 Sermon There was a fire that engulfed the home of a family on Dec. 30, 2019. The family lost the home, but the mother of the family was able to save her children. This was fine, except that the fire happened in North Korea. This mother now happens to be...

Jan 19th 2020 Sermon

  Recently, (Dec. 26, 2019), Tamura Atsushi (田村 淳), one-half of a of a comic tag- team who call themselves London Boots, sent out a tweet commenting on the discipline of a public school teacher at Sakai High School in Sakai, Osaka. Atsushi protested that...

Dec. 22nd 2019

December 22nd 2019 I recently saw a video (“The Dangerous Pursuit of One of the World’s Rarest Colours”) put out by the BBC on Dec. 11, 2019 about an indigenous community called the Mixtec who live in Pinotepa de Don Luis, Oaxaca, Mexico. They have preserved a long...

October 27th, 2019 Sermon

  There is an issue brewing in our backyard that really challenges us as Buddhists, in that it requires us to think about where the middle way should land. It is not an issue to merely ponder, but one with which we in the Northwest must soon take action. I will...