Many people find Buddhist practices to calm the mind, open the heart and strengthen ethical conduct to be useful regardless of their religious leanings. Buddhism does not just encourage us to have love, compassion and wisdom; it shows us how to cultivate these qualities.

It happened again. This time seven people were killed, three of them 9-year-old children.

Being woke was popularized in 1962 as African-American street slang by black novelist William Sloan Kelly. His explanation of woke spoke clearly that history, black history especially, needed to be identified and affirmed. His description is reflected in how the Oxford English Dictionary defines woke.

I attended the “Women, Life, Freedom” panel March 22 on Eastern Washington University’s campus. Dr. Arezoo Davari, an EWU associate professor of marketing, organized the event. She felt she had to do something in solidarity with the latest phase of the women’s rights movement in Iran, going on now.

HRC Ministries wants to sell a piece of property they know God provided for them. Purchased in 2019, the property provided a safe space in a renovated home for women coming out of trafficking.

This Monday morning, parents were dropping their children off at The Covenant School anticipating a bright, sunny, promising day of love, friendship and learning. No one could fathom what would happen soon after this, when a 28-year-old assailant entered the building and opened fire, resulting in the loss of life for three 9-year-old children, three adults on staff and then the assailant as police intervened.