Originally published on the Unity and Diversity World Council Website here, June, 2019 I am both ordained as an interfaith minister with UDC and a priest within the Japanese Buddhist tradition called Shingon. Yet Shingon, a 1200-year-old branch of Buddhism and among the oldest of the main sects in Japan, also has some interfaith aspects

This post is originally from the Unity and Diversity World Council page, published in September, 2019 here. According to surveys, the Japanese are nearly 90% Shinto, and between 70%-80% Buddhist …. Yet less than 30% say they are religious.  This is due in part to translation difficulties, and also because of the very different nature

From the Fall 2019 edition of Skylight Originally Published Friday, November 1st 2019, 11:16am As a doctoral candidate in the GTU’s Department of Historical and Cultural Studies in Religions, I have been based in Sendai, Japan, for most of my dissertation research. Unlike Tokyo, Osaka, or Kyoto, the city of Sendai isn’t well known to