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Cool to Be Kind

The Kindness Cab delivers a goodwill message — Dan Eldridge

Film: Crazy Wisdom

Directed by Johanna Demetrakas When Westerns think of Tibetan Buddhism, usually it’s the Dalai Lama who comes to mind. But in 1959, the same year the Dalai Lama escaped the Communist takeover of Tibet, there was another lama on the run—Chögyam Trungpa. Trungpa was raised with the traditional teachings of the Kagyu lineage, one of […]

Film: Bouncing Cats

Uganda is said to be one of the worst places in the world to be a child, and watching the footage in a new documentary, Bouncing Cats, I know this is true. These kids have grown up with not just extreme poverty and rampant AIDS, but also the terror that at any moment they might […]

Vigil for Troy Davis

Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser and her young children quietly take a stand for justice