{"id":14355,"date":"2009-08-09T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/denver_post_buddhism_strengthens_ties_to_church\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T22:44:13","slug":"denver_post_buddhism_strengthens_ties_to_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14355","title":{"rendered":"Denver Post: Buddhism strengthens ties to church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What in the recent past seemed exotic and foreign is now almost routinely folded into &#8220;the fold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buddhism is not only accepted as a mainstream American religion, it is a path increasingly trod by faithful Christians and Jews who infuse Eastern spiritual insights and practices such as meditation into their own religions.<\/p>\n<p>When John Weber became a Buddhist at age 19, his devout Methodist parents were not particularly pleased.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, however, they&#8217;ve invited their son, a religious studies expert with Boulder&#8217;s Naropa University, to speak at their church about Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That never would have happened before,&#8221; Weber said. &#8220;They would have been embarrassed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_13023827\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What in the recent past seemed exotic and foreign is now almost routinely folded into &#8220;the fold.&#8221; Buddhism is not only accepted as a mainstream American religion, it is a path increasingly trod by faithful Christians and Jews who infuse<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14355\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,430,154,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-buddhism","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}