Blogs Posts on "Pop-culture"

The ball is in our court now. by Modern Scribe on Oct 28, 200922% born-again Christians believe that Jesus sinned. 31% believe a good person can earn their way to heaven. According to a George Barna study, most self-proclaimed Christians don’t believe that Satan and the Holy Spirit actually exist. How...

The Vicious Cycle by The Guy's Perspective on Oct 22, 2009So we were over at Momversation. Yes, we admit it. We like to know what the Moms are up to. It keeps us current. Anyway, they were talking about kids of Reality TV and how awful it is. And while we totally agree that the exploitation of kids for mone...

One Last Thing... by El Vomitar on Jun 26, 2009Michael Joseph Jackson August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009 [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Buddhism, pop-culture, and the homogenization of the Dharma by the buddha is my dj on Jun 16, 2009Presented as part of a panel on Shin Buddhism in the west at the XIV Biennial meeting of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies, this paper is a more reasoned, researched, and well-articulated version of some themes with which my long...

dharma music by the buddha is my dj on May 8, 2009What would be really interesting, of course, would be something bringing these elements together. What would be really cool would be someone making music that brings together the best of both worlds. Which, of course, isn’t a radically new idea, an...

revisiting an old thread by the buddha is my dj on May 6, 2009I thought I'd revisit an article (and my response to it) by Clark Strand on American Buddhism, raising Buddhist children, and other sticky issues like baby boomers and white folk. Being a big believer in allowing one's opinions to grown, mature, and...

just ask this scientician! by the buddha is my dj on Mar 27, 2009Just ask this scientician. He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably eats another creature to survive.

hawking buddhism by the buddha is my dj on Mar 24, 2009I've been reading a book lately called Selling Spirituality: the Silent Takeover of Religion by Jeremy Carrette and Richard King. I'm reading it to help collect my thoughts about a piece I'm working on about Buddhism and pop-culture, the commodificat...

hate to break it to you by the buddha is my dj on Feb 23, 2009Hate to break it to you, but that's not Buddhism. And it sure as hell ain't Zen.

buddhism and religion by the buddha is my dj on Jan 13, 2009I have three, at the very least, reservations (at the very most out-and-out critiques) of the whole "Buddhism isn't a religion" or "spirituality is better than religion" trope that we come across these days in these United States.