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Insights: Exploring Secular Dharma #73 October 2025
Welcome to our October 2025 newsletter. This month we feature articles by Vince Cavuoto, Tom Cummings, Nan DiBello, Robert M. Ellis, Linda Modaro, Mike Slott, Karsten Struhl, and Sharon Tobias. We also highlight Ted Meissner's 2018 interview with Bernat Font on the topic of secular mindfulness and Buddhism.
Insights: Exploring Secular Dharma #72 September 2025
Welcome to our September 2025 newsletter. This month we feature articles by Piero Falci, Caspar Harris, Lenorë Lambert, Kenneth Leong, and Marc Symons. We also highlight Ted Meissner's 2024 interview with Shaila Catherine about her book, Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #71 August 2025
Welcome to our August 2025 newsletter. This month we feature: articles by Ayda Duroux, Jesus Perez, Marc Symons, and John Tate; Ted Meissner's 2020 interview with Matteo Pistono about his book, Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism; and two courses that will be offered in September.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #70 July 2025
Welcome to our July 2025 newsletter. This month we feature articles by Linda Blanchard, Winton Higgins, Ira Rifkin, and Petero Wamala, as well as Ted Meissner's 2019 interview with Oren Jay Sofer about his book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #69 June 2025
Welcome to our June 2025 newsletter. This month we feature: articles by Ramsey Margolis, Mike Slott, and Brian Victoria; Ted Meissner's interview with Evan Thompson about his book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist; the newly elected Board of Directors of SBN; a 15% sale on all Tuwhiri books in June; and the Buddhist Coalition for Democracy's legal support for Mahmoud Khalil, who was illegally detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #68 May 2025
Welcome to our May 2025 newsletter. This month we feature: articles by Tom Cummings, Roy Hammond, Kirk Mason, and Linda Modaro/Nelly Kaufer; Ted Meissner's interview with David Loy about his book, Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis; an upcoming SBN online meditation retreat; and the recent activities of the Buddhist Coalition for Democracy.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #67 April 2025
Welcome to our April 2025 newsletter. This month we feature: articles by Johannes Cairns and Tiffany Caicco; Ted Meissner's interview with Pamela Weiss about her book, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism; the formation of a new coalition of Buddhist groups to respond to the harms caused by the Trump administration; and an upcoming reading group sponsored by Tuwhiri, a secular Buddhist publishing imprint.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #66 March 2025
Welcome to our March 2025 newsletter. This month we feature: offerings on secular dharma by Stephen Batchelor, Lenore Lambert, and Dave Smith; Reflective Meditation podcasts on the recent US election; Ted Meissner's interview with Seth Zuiho Segal; upcoming reading groups sponsored by Tuwhiri, a secular Buddhist publishing imprint; and a petition to reverse the cuts to the US Agency for International Development.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #65 February 2025
Welcome to our February 2025 newsletter. This month we feature articles by Janet Rechtman, Bernat Font, Brian Daizen Victoria, and Yanai Postelnik. We also highlight upcoming SBN events, Ted Meissner's interview with Rick Heller on secular meditation, and the opening of registrations for SBN's Exploring a Secular Dharma course.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #64 January 2025
Welcome to our January 2025 newsletter.
This month we feature a new article by Jochen Weber and highlight the following: an update on the SBA-SBN merger, Ted Meissner's 2017 interview with Stephen Batchelor on the The Secular Buddhist podcast, upcoming SBN community meetings on our response to the election of Trump, and the passing of American Soto Zen priest and engaged Buddhist, Hozan Alan Senauke.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #63 December 2024
Welcome to our December 2024 newsletter. This month we feature new articles by Sarah Barker, Tom Cummings, and Norma Wong. We also highlight John Danvers' podcast Dharma Roads and a conversation between Winton Higgins and Mike Slott on Mike's new book, Mindful Solidarity.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #62 November 2024
Welcome to our November 2024 newsletter. This month we feature new articles by Amy Balentine, Dr. Cathryn Jacob, Ramsey Margolis, and Jochen Weber. We also highlight a book launch event to discuss Mindful Solidarity, which integrates a secular Buddhist perspective with radical political activism.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #61 October 2024
Welcome to our October 2024 newsletter. This month we feature new articles by Jourdan Arensen, Nelly Kaufer, Ramsey Margolis, and Linda Modaro. We also highlight a new book on mindful solidarity, the merger of two secular Buddhist groups, and a one day, online seminar on secular dharma offered by Bodhi College.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #60 September 2024
Welcome to our September 2024 newsletter. This month we feature new articles by Petra Hunsche, Ira Rifkin, Carmel Shalev, and Harry Somaraju. We also highlight upcoming offerings from the Secular Buddhist Network.
Rethinking the Dharma / Reimagining Community #59 August 2024
Welcome to our August 2024 newsletter. This month we feature new articles by Ramsey Margolis and Mike Slott, a new book from the secular Buddhist imprint Tuwhiri, and new offerings from the Secular Buddhist Network.
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