Professor of Religion, University of Vermont Author, Educating Monks (UHP 2017) Carries a mace twice a year
Bangkok, Banna, VT
Joined March 2014
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Iām an example of a āDEI Hireā
When I started my career (with a low salary) women were by far the minority in academic medicine & we are still working at equity.
Now - Iām University Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed to a faculty member by my institution
Politically diverse congregations are getting rarer. One aims to endure. wapo.st/41SZwCu
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Here's to the glories of Thai religiosity and entrepreneurial spirit! #MooDeng
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Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmarās revolutionary situation - New Mandala shar.es/ag6utq via @newmandala
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If the name āTibetā is good enough for @metmuseum why isnāt it good enough for @MuseeGuimet ? Why is the Guimet helping the CCP erase Tibetās history, memory, identity & sinicizing Tibetan art & culture by using the colonizing name āXizangā? Is this colonialism 2.0?
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When people say āChina is destroying the middle classā, they are actually referring to the upper quintile of Chinese society.
The 50th percentile Chinese HH is a family or worker that moved from the village into the city in 2011 and does not have full hukou yet.
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Join the Our Common Ground: Israel/Palestine events as past #RelLitUVM keynote @simran returns to teach us again! Then our own @tom_borchert & @ProfIRMF share a panel discussion about statehood with Drs Henne & Farhang.
Wednesday 9/25
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ITāS ALL HAPPENING
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Devotees of Lord Ganesha, both Thai and foreign, participated in the "Ganesh Chaturthi, the Festival of Worship and Blessings to Lord Ganesha" at the Goddess Kali Shrine in Pattaya, Chonburi Province. This festival is taking place from Sept 7 to 17 #lordganesha #pattaya #thailand
Chiang Mai temple halts 19-metre statue plan after public outcry thethaiger.com/news/nationalā¦
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The University calls it the āweek of welcome,ā but we all know itās really the āweek of meetings.ā
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Tom Borchert retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
At 15:00 today, The Constitutional Court has unanimously voted to dissolve the Move Forward Party, the largest opposition party and the party with the highest number of seats in the House of Representatives, on the ground that the party had committed treason by campaigning to amend the royal defamation law.
The partyās executive board members are also banned from politics for 10 years, meaning that they are banned from running in elections, forming a political party, or serve as an executive board members in another party.
Meanwhile, its MPs will have to join a new party within 60 days or lose their MP status.
#whatshappeninginthailand
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Tom Borchert retweeted
it is expected now that Joe Biden will take monastic vows and assume the position of of daijÅ hÅÅ (å¤Ŗäøę³ē) or Cloistered Emperor, allowing Kamala Harris to become TennÅ (天ē); Biden will continue to exercise insei (é¢ęæ) or monastery administration over affairs of state
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PRC propaganda article equates Xinjiang with US and Australian colonial history re. native peoples. This acknowledgement of Xinjiang as a PRC colony is in fact a positive step for the CCP. š§µ ecns.cn/m/news/society/2024-ā¦
Thailandās Halal Industry Set for Expansion Following GMTI 2024 Ranking khaosodenglish.com/life/tourā¦ via @KhaosodEnglish
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Renowned historian Thongchai Winichakul has pointed out that the Thai justice system operates under a āroyalist rule of lawā, which establishes a state of exception allowing the infringement of the peopleās rights and freedoms under the pretext of national security.
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Tom Borchert retweeted
Jesus said, "let those who are hungry come to me, and always autograph the bombs you drop on children."
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Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her congregation that she was in a committed same-sex relationship. Tuesday, she was reinstated.
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