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Beginner's Heart
a Golden Rule Yule
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Britton Gildersleeve
I was raised by Christians. My next sister is a Christian, my husband a kind of existential Christian. Many of my dearest family (sister-in-law, cousins) are Christian pastors. I love that word: pastor. From the Old French/ Latin, shepherd of souls. I prefer it to ‘minister,’ which has a top-down connotation to me. I’ve actually read the entire…
that was then…
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Britton Gildersleeve
I grew up overseas, which I’ve probably mentioned somewhere. The important thing to know about growing up overseas is that it marks you. The places you love aren’t (usually) places you can return to. And long years may go by between visits, if you ARE able to return. Given that I spent my childhood in…
Facebook and the (other) web ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
For Buddhists, the world is a web. Everything is connected, and everyone as well. Long before I knew there was a word for this — interconnectedness — I believed in it. What I did, I knew even as a child, had consequences. For me, certainly. But also for everyone and everything around me. Facebook is a…
neither here nor there ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
A blogger I admire deeply — The Dalai Grandma — has been talking about a topic near & dear to my heart: everyday Buddhism. That’s not, I’m sure, what she would call it :). She is both far more educated in classical Buddhism and way better read. Which is, I suppose, one of the reasons…
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