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I love the reader who volunteered this helpful correction: “Having just read ‘Jane Eyre’ a couple months ago (for the first time, at age 37), I have to comment that the madwoman in the attic was named Bertha Mason. Grace Poole was her alcoholic keeper–though I’m sure she didn’t look too great in the morning…

On Wednesday, I mentioned Sam Harris’s blog post about scientists partaking in a group meditation retreat. Later that afternoon, I spied a provocative article by Harris called ‘Taking the Religion Out of Buddhism’ touted on the cover of the March 2006 Shambhala Sun (an incredibly good magazine, by the way). Shambhala Sun’s website doesn’t yet…

Thanks to Bishop Craig Bergland, who wrote this reponse to yesterday’s post about my son, who worries about whether he believes in God, and whether he can be a Jewish Buddhist. Buddhism has been a very significant part of my own journey, and I believe you are completely accurate when you say that a Buddhist…

Thanks so much also to the kind reader who wrote: My son is Jewish-Christian. He was Bar Mitzvah’d at 13 and is being confirmed at 14. But he has also been exposed to all the world’s religions and lives in a house filled with images from all faiths. He looks at Jesus, the Goddesses, and…
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