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	<title>Off the Cushion</title>
	
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	<description>A Blog About Buddhism &amp; Social Justice by Rev. Danny Fisher</description>
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		<title>INTERVIEW: William Whittington and Vicki Callahan on Buddhism, Film and Social Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Whittington is the Assistant Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in film and television history, genre, audio and digital culture, film and Buddhism, adaptation, and contemporary LGBT media. He is also the author of Sound Design and Science Fiction (University of Texas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plot to Save the Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve blogged before in the past about my friend and inspiration Charles S. Prebish. I interviewed Chuck and John Harding about the late Leslie Kawamura for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly Online; did a roundtable conversation with him, my buddy Justin Whitaker and Sarah Haynes for Ted Meissner’s The Secular Buddhist Podcast; and reviewed his memoir An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Get a Cool Big Lebowski T-Shirt and Support Buddhist Global Relief at the Same Time? Now You Can!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awesome news: my dear old college friend Dan Ewen, the noted screenwriter and comedian, and his friend Tom Richner (a longtime artist for The Simpsons) have designed an amazing T-shirt that both honors the Buddhist connection to The Big Lebowski and benefits Buddhist Global Relief with 10% of each sale. You can buy one right here. Dan wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shodo Spring on “Finding an Appropriate Response to Climate Change” at The Jizo Chronicles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 19:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shodo Spring, the Soto Zen priest who leads the Compassionate Earth Walk &#8212; &#8220;a physical walk through the heart of North America, a moving spiritual community dedicating our energy to nourishing the earth, and an invitation to all humans to wake up, end the destruction, and return to our home in the community of life&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Think Chris Broussard Should Be Censured by ESPN</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/2013/05/why-i-think-chris-broussard-should-be-censured-by-espn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 03:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/?p=737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Faithful America &#8211; an online community dedicated to &#8220;reclaiming Christianity from the religious right and putting faith into action for social justice&#8221; &#8211; has a petition on their website today entitled &#8220;Tell ESPN: Don&#8217;t Use the Bible to Gay Bash Athletes&#8221;. It reads: When Jason Collins became the first openly gay player in the NBA, he emphasized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Portrait of Incredibly Dangerous Buddhist Islamophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I made mention of Burma&#8217;s “mad” Buddhist monk Wirathu. A former prisoner, put behind bars for nine years on the charge of inciting violence against his country&#8217;s Muslim population, he is referred to as the “Burmese Bin Laden” and has called for a boycott of Muslim businesses, made baseless claims about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join the Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s April Phone Call on “Buddhist KXL Direct Action”</title>
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		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/2013/04/join-the-buddhist-peace-fellowships-april-phone-call-on-buddhist-kxl-direct-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I Got Engaged!</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/2013/04/i-got-engaged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/?p=729</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very pleased to share with you all that three days ago, on my birthday, with a little help from the incredibly heroic and very dear New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, (see above), I proposed to my partner Steph and she said &#8220;yes.&#8221; For the whole story, visit my official website here. I&#8217;ve blogged twice before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Did I Take My Class to Skid Row? (And Other Questions)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/2013/04/why-did-i-take-my-class-to-skid-row-and-other-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/2013/04/why-did-i-take-my-class-to-skid-row-and-other-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All is revealed in my new post at University of the West&#8217;s Dharma Dialogue blog! For the uninitiated, Dharma Dialogue began last fall with a course taught by UWest&#8217;s Chair of the Religious Studies Department, Dr. Jane Iwamura. That course was &#8220;Buddhism in the U.S.&#8221;, and the posts from the students generated much conversation in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Plight of Burma’s Rohingya People</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/2013/04/archbishop-desmond-tutu-on-the-plight-of-burmas-rohingya-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dannyfisher/2013/04/archbishop-desmond-tutu-on-the-plight-of-burmas-rohingya-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tricycle&#8216;s Awake in the World blog has been doing an absolutely marvelous job of following news related to Burma&#8217;s Rohingya minority, and continues this week with a post by Alex Caring-Lobel, who puts the spotlight on the &#8220;mad&#8221; Buddhist monk Wirathu. A former prisoner, put behind bars for inciting violence against Burma&#8217;s Muslims, and who refers to himself [...]]]></description>
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