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Rev. Tom Tyre is an interfaith minister who leads the non-sectarian Buddhist Fellowship of Franklin in Franklin, NC. He’s also director of Ubuntu, an a cappela world music choir which has been singing in Franklin since 2009. Tom has been a student of Buddhism for more than forty years and took his vows with Geshe Thupten Phelgye, former member of the Tibetan Parliament in exile and visiting professor at Eastern Washington University.
Every once in a while someone decides they need to fix a religion. Most UUs know about Thomas Jefferson’s shocking take on how to fix colonial Christianity in the late 1700s, But did you know a former King of Thailand made changes that shook up the local Buddhism in the 1800s? It gets sticky sometimes … Continue reading When Religions Clean House
Be prepared for a joyful morning as Tom Tyre and the Ubuntu choir join us to sing songs from around the world.
Every day people spend sixteen or so hours working, playing, eating, reading, operating computers of all types, and doing what needs to be done. People sleep – usually at night — for approximately eight hours, although some sleep much less and a few sleep more. The transition between being awake and being asleep is so subtle that … Continue reading Sweet Mystery of Life
Religion need not be just something that one believes but something that one does. And, that something grows and changes as we grow in our lives. Think of this as an good adjunct to the “Building Your Own Theology” study course created by the UUA.
