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News: Your Spiritual Path
How could a loving God bar any sincere person from meeting Him? I realized that this core belief, that in all human beings live the One Creator, began a process of opening me to God’s grace, drawing me into the wider embrace of Sikhism, a religion I did not know existed until I met the man who would become my husband.
News: Summary of talk by Bibi Harvinder Kaur Khalsa
News: Religious Diversity: When 'Acceptance' Isn't Enough
“Our community can only be safe when we come together and insist not just on tolerance but acceptance.” Words are slippery things, but I think my mother’s “acceptance” and Steinberg’s “tolerance” meant the same thing: the naming of another person as the Other, the NotMe, the One Who Is Different from Me.
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News: Dalai Lama has thrown a gauntlet to Beijing
The Chinese Communist leaders think by ignoring the Dalai Lama they cand subdue the free spirit of six million Tibetans and earn their loyalty. The leaders in Beijing are in for a bit of disappointment. By giving up his wide-ranging political powers, the 14th Dalai Lama, the man who calls himself a “simple Buddhist monk”, has thrown them a challenge that they will find it almost impossible to face...