This article from Killing the Buddha is a pretty good one about fostering dialogue about religion with people, and the exchanges between Buddhism and Christianity in the US. Some of the points are fascinating. Food for thought.

Can't believe I beat all of you Denver-ites in posting this:

Buddhism Strengthens Ties to Church
By Electa Draper
The Denver Post
Posted: 08/09/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT

What in the recent past seemed exotic and foreign is now almost routinely folded into "the fold."

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 pract… Continue

With all this talk about books on Zen Christianity (or Christian Zen), I forgot to mention an absolutely fantastic (in the literal sense of the word) work of fiction about, in part, this very subject.

For the last several decades, at least, there has been a debate among religious scholars about whether, during his "lost years," Jesus might have travelled to India to learn about Hinduism and Buddhism. Personally, I don't think that's terribly likely. Still, it's kind of a neat idea.

Lamb… Continue

A conversation about Robert Wright's new book The Evolution Of God.
Not for the fundamentalist of any religion but then if you are a fundamentalist of any religion you are probably not hip to this site.

Conversation is here: http://tinyurl.com/mhqkct

Long before I ever set foot in the zendo or knew anything at all about Buddhism - beyond those usual, most basic, poorly understood supposed "facts" about Buddhist cosmology that I learned in social studies class in school - I was a Christian of a very liberal and existentialist bent. Back in the mid-90s, my favorite Anglican priest in Manchester, England, introduced me to J.A.T. Robinson's Honest to God, through which I gained a passing familiarity with the theology of Paul Tillich. It d… Continue