Guest post by Sharon Salzberg, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass., and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. I went to India in March of 2008, journeying there for the first time in 12 years. For over three decades India has been my spiritual home, the place where I first found meditation practice,…

With Rush Limbaugh having asserted his claim to be the true and rightful leader of the Republican Party, it’s tempting to argue that he is, in fact, the perfect embodiment for Republicans at this historical moment: loud, boorish, corpulent and (if you’ll pardon my reference to an unfortunate physical malady) hard of hearing. Not to…

Guest Post by Rev. Debra W. Haffner, Director, Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing – a multifaith organization with more than 4400 religious leaders in its network The California Supreme Court will hear arguments today to invalidate Prop 8 as unconstitutional. I’m sure my readers remember that in November, by a narrow margin,…

Greed ranks third on the seven deadly sins, But only some of the time.  Nancy Folbre opens her revealing column called Sin Cycle with this reminder; In Oliver Stone’s classic film “Wall Street,” a charismatic capitalist named Gordon Gekko proclaims, “Greed is right. Greed works.” Libertarians influenced by Ayn Rand make similar pronouncements. Other conservatives occasionally indulge.…

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