After a childhood in the Bible Belt, and after much stumbling around in many religious traditions, I became a formal student of Zen Buddhism in the late 1980s. As a blogger and journalist I have written extensively about religion in America and how it impacts politics and culture. Since 2008 I have been the resident expert on Buddhism for About..... more
After a childhood in the Bible Belt, and after much stumbling around in many religious traditions, I became a formal student of Zen Buddhism in the late 1980s. As a blogger and journalist I have written extensively about religion in America and how it impacts politics and culture. Since 2008 I have been the resident expert on Buddhism for About.com. I blog about whatever is on my mind at my personal blog, The Mahablog (mahablog.com). I am currently a member of the Empty Hand Zen Center in New Rochelle, NY.
Barbara O'Brien's Projects
Rethinking Religion: Finding a Place for Religion in a Modern, Tolerant, Progressive, Peaceful and Science-Affirming World
Rethinking Religion argues that today’s clown-shoes religiosity is an infantile caricature of religi... more
