The Impermanent Record

I began my very first post to Faithbook and then to this blog with the following words: I am not a Buddhist. I've never told anyone tha...

The name of my blog is The Impermanent Record for a reason. The rejection of eternal essences and premises is the cornerstone of most (not ...

Here is a little film I made during a trip to Galta. The music is provided by The Fleet Foxes and the goofy mugs are mostly by Colin, a dost...

Friday June 12th I flew into Washington D.C. yesterday to attend the orientation for the Critical Language Scholarship before leaving for In...

I'm too worn out after Hindi, Dr. Schlutter's lecture, three sections of Intro to Buddhism and two and a half hours of Modern Japane...

I hope no reader will suppose that "mere" Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communi...

From Matthew 2 (NIV) After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and ask...

Over the break I had a nice visit with my good friend Lucas. After dinner we decided it would be nice to indulge in a film. I wanted to watc...

More married again very soon after his first wife's death, his choice being a widow, Alice Middleton. She was older than he by seven yea...

It is a wonderful thing to discover a new saint. For God is greatly magnified and marvelous in each one of His saints: differently in each i...

I've decided to gather all the interesting images that arise from the depths of Google when you search for things like "Bodhisattva...

How incapable I was of understanding anything like the ideals of a William Blake ! How could I possibly realize that his rebellion, for all ...

Today I broke my uposatha precepts (no adornments or entertainment) to turn you on to a great song and musician. Here are two versions of I ...

It's Sunday, which means Meet the Press, This Week and Religion and Ethics Newsweekly in the morning and then 60 Minutes at night. I...

Why does it take one minute and forty-five seconds to cook a Hot Pocket , but only ten seconds to turn a Pop-tart into a molten mass of scal...

One of the things I wanted to do on the Faithbook blog but never got around to was responding to some of the comments. Lo and behold, not t...

For the last year I have been supposed to be blogging on the Faithbook page of the Newsweek/Washington Post's On Faith site. I have to ...

I was born in 1978, just a few short years before MTV launched their spaceman. In the years since, one of my greatest lamentations has been ...

Here is my fifth, and so far last Faithbook post from September 12th, 2008. Rain is falling here and there. Here, a late summer shower. The...

Here is my fourth Faithbook post from August 22nd, 2008. It's been exactly six month since I last posted to Faithbook. So, where have I...

Here is my third Faithbook post from February 21st, 2008. Today was my favorite day so far in Living Religions of the East . Dr. Smith (Fr...

Here is my second Faithbook post from February 16th 2008. In the religious studies department of the University of Iowa, the graduate stude...

The following was my original Faithbook post from February 15th 2008. If you want to read it in its original context (and check out the inte...

Walking home on December 10th (the fortieth aniversary of Thomas Merton's mahāparinirvana ), the conditions were perfect for viewing a r...