A Big News Day for Buddhist Military Chaplains

It was a big news day for Buddhist chaplains today.

First, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review's marvelous editor and publisher James Sheehan points us to The Commercial Appeal's profile of Buddhist Army National Guard chaplain Thomas Dyer (pictured).

Next, over at Shambhala SunSpace, web editor Rod Meade Sperry blogs about Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's "promised financial support to the Buddhist community and to place Buddhist chaplains in the military."

Lastly, Lt. Jeanette Shin at the Buddhist Military Sangha shares with us the news that "U.S. Air Force SSGT Henry Sims has just begun a new blog chronicling his attempt to become a military chaplain of Buddhist faith." Take a look!

[Photo by Mike Brown for The Commercial Appeal. "Chaplain Thomas Dyer of the Tennessee National Guard is the first Buddhist chaplain in the Army. According to Army Chaplain Carleton Birch, spokesman for the Office of Chief of Army Chaplains in Washington, there are at least 3,300 Buddhists in the Army."]

Check Out Program Coordinator Danny Fisher's Interview on the Buddhist Geeks Podcast

UWest's Danny Fisher (center) with Buddhist Geeks Vince Horn (left) and Ryan Oelke (right) at their studio in Boulder, CO, last week.
I was in Boulder, CO, last week to do an interview those utterly fantastic Buddhist Geeks, and that interview is now online. I hope you'll give it a listen here.

(P.S. I did a "Geeks of the Roundtable" segment with them too, and will post about that once it's up.)

"The Integration of East and West"

Our friend and UWest colleage Jesse F. Tanner, a Unity minister-in-training and author of Progressive-Practical Christianity, returned to Unity.FM's "World of Spirituality" show this past week. You can listen to the interview online here. This is part two of a two-part series; you can listen to the first interview here.

Check Out UWest Prof Amy Demyan's New Website: AmyKnowsBest.Com

Our friend and UWest colleage in the Psychology department, Dr. Amy Demyan, just launched her new website, AmyKnowsBest.Com, yesterday. I was very pleased to have been able to contribute a short mindfulness meditation exercise to the "Mind|Body|Soul" section as part of its debut. Take a look!