Donovan Irven
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Bringing meditation techniques into his new role as a middle school teacher, a former academic finds some resolution despite a new crisis.
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As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.
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Faced with his wife’s cancer diagnosis, a lack of affordable housing, and losing his job in academia, Donovan Irven turns to Zen Buddhism to resolve…
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Fascism has been on the rise in the US but does liberalism or antifascism provide a stronger defense against far-right authoritarian forces.
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With culture wars focusing more on the nature of truth, the time is ripe to consider the connection between pragmatism and existentialism.
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Eating crab is a fitting tradition for an Appalachian community dealing with the intergenerational trauma connected to the opioid crisis.