Tag Archives: religion

What about that mosque at Ground Zero?

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

In 2004 I was hired to help edit the book What’s Right with Islam Is What’s Right with America by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam and educator who is spearheading plans to construct a Muslim cultural center—not a mosque—two blocks … Continue reading →

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Happy 150th to Darwin’s Origin of Species

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species. I learned this from Bron Taylor during a reading from his new book, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, at the Boulder Book Store … Continue reading →

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We, the Earth: Ecological crisis as spiritual practice

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

“There is no separate self,” say the Buddhists. Twenty-five years ago I couldn’t warm up to the idea. Of course selves are separate; that’s why I was putting so much individual work into building one. Separate self? It was repetitious, … Continue reading →

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What the world needs now

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

“I want people to hear the compassionate voice of religion,” says religion scholar Karen Armstrong. What, you say, religion and compassion in the same sentence?

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