Gabrielle Applebury: Cremation is the most popular form of funeral arrangement that is made in Japan with a rate of 99.9 percent.
ISIS GONSALVES: Lisa, let him live with you or your sister.... just like the good old days. Once a man, twice a child.
An illustrator in #China re-created a famous Japanese painting The Great Wave off #Kanagawa. If Katsushika Hokusai, the original author is still alive today, he would also be very concerned about #JapanNuclearWater. pic.twitter.com/NlTFkqvwmN
BARUCH A. LEVINE: A site regarded as holy by pagans might continue to be regarded as such by monotheists; indeed, some of the most important sacred sites in ancient Israel are known to have had a prior history of sanctity in Canaanite times, although the Bible ignores the pagan antecedents and explains their holiness solely in terms of Israelite history and belief.
EILEEN JONES: At a time when people have been largely confined to their homes during quarantine closures and got even more used to avidly watching media entertainment on TV and computer screens, the general public doesn’t seem to miss going to the movies much.
STEVE KOVACH: That means if you’re already an HBO Max subscriber, you’ll get to watch “The Matrix 4″ from your living room couch instead of risking a trip to the theater next year. “Wonder Woman 1984” will debut on HBO Max on Christmas Day.
Jay McDaniel: When you respond with wisdom and compassion in the immediacy of the moment, you have become living Zen. Living Zen can help Christians enter more deeply into that form of living to which we aspire: life in Christ. Our task, as humans, is to awaken to what is always already here. For this reason I think Zen can enrich the incarnational emphasis of Christianity, which likewise finds the infinite in the finite, the sacred in the ordinary, the word in the enfleshedness of daily life. Your life is your sermon.
A. JAMES RUDIN: In the proliferation of "couch churches" and "sofa synagogues," we are seeing religion become decentralized. Christian~Jewish encounters have therefore become independent of academic or clerical guidance.
Rita Nakashima Brock: Lately, I find my roots in Buddhism an increasingly important influence in my thinking about what ends suffering and empowers love.
DANIEL MILLET GIL: Christians can practice Zen to improve their practice of Christianity.
WIKIPEDIA: The Goma (護摩) Ritual of consecrated fire is performed for the purpose of destroying negative energies, detrimental thoughts and desires, and for the making of secular requests and blessings.
GIDEON SYLVESTER: an idolater who studies Torah can benefit greatly, attain piety, and potentially even reach the exalted spiritual level of the High Priest.
Setsuko Yoshizuka: Typically, a traditional Japanese breakfast consists of steamed rice, miso soup, a protein such as grilled fish, and various side dishes.
