meditation
Alabama House votes to end yoga ban, but don’t say ‘namaste’
By Kim Chandler — March 13, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Board of Education voted in 1993 to prohibit yoga, hypnosis and meditation in public school classrooms.
Stressed by COVID, online seekers discover Buddhism’s calming practice
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil — November 10, 2020
(RNS) — Buddhist teachings about suffering and the impermanence of all things, many find, have particular relevance in this moment.
Breath, the divine metaphor, becomes a hallmark of America’s twin crises
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi — July 8, 2020
(RNS) — The normally simple, normally unconscious act of drawing breath has come to define the United States’ most pressing problems. What the world’s faith traditions have to say about the meaning of our first act as humans.
Young Japan priests try to breathe life into fading Buddhism
By Malcolm Foster — June 12, 2020
TOKYO (AP) — Buddhist leaders say a third of the country’s 75,000 temples are barely functioning, but a younger generation of priests is working to reverse the faith’s downward spiral.
There’s an app for that: Christian mindfulness, meditation apps find their moment
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 15, 2020
(RNS) — Many apps have reported spikes in searches for meditations on fear and anxiety since the pandemic started.
Meditating on death during a pandemic
By Thomas Reese — March 20, 2020
(RNS) — My precautionary isolation due to contact with someone with COVID-19 has given me time to think.
Cathedral light show is drawing those who normally don’t darken church doors
By Adelle M. Banks — February 17, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Cathedrals around the world are welcoming people in new ways with meditative light and sound shows.
‘Self-Care Barbie’ brings moral perfection to the younger set
By Tara Isabella Burton — February 12, 2020
(RNS) — Barbie's aspirational qualities here are neither those of beauty nor those of career success, but rather quasi-spiritual purity.
How a Western megachurch pastor fell in love with Eastern meditation
By Jarrett Stevens — February 11, 2020
(RNS) — Coming from an evangelical upbringing, I’ve heard religious leaders cast meditation as a dangerous pagan practice. But Western Christians have missed out since abandoning our own tradition of meditation.
Ram Dass, who introduced a generation to Hindu meditation, dies at 88
By Kimberly Winston — December 23, 2019
(RNS) — Pioneering the use of psychedelic drugs as spiritual practice, he also explored Buddhism and Hinduism, which took him to India and resulted in his 1971 best-selling book ‘Be Here Now.’
She reclaimed her faith as a woman. Now she’s teaching others to reclaim theirs.
By Yonat Shimron — November 7, 2019
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — A harrowing journey toward gender transition led Yiscah Smith to find God's dwelling within. Now she teaches others to do the same.
Buddhist monk finds a digital road to the Latino world
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil — January 7, 2019
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Social media is helping to fuel Latin America's budding interest in Buddhism.
Why a 14th-century mystic appeals to today’s ‘spiritual but not religious’ Americans
By Joel Harrington — December 10, 2018
(The Conversation) — Once censured by a papal decree, Meister Eckhart, a 14th-century Dominican friar famous for his sermons on the direct experience of God, is again finding popular appeal.
How Americans came to embrace meditation, and with it, Hinduism
By Vasudha Narayanan — February 6, 2018
(The Conversation) — In the 1960s many Americans may have only known Hinduism through meditation, but the story of this country’s relationship with Hinduism is much longer and more complex.
A Buddhist psychiatrist’s advice on facing trauma, troubles and Trump: Let it go
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 12, 2018
(RNS) — 'Buddhism has been called the most psychological of the world’s religions and the most spiritual of the world’s psychologies,' says Mark Epstein.
