“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

About Maia Duerr

Maia Duerr is a writer, anthropologist, and activist. She trained at the Upaya Zen Center to serve as a Buddhist Chaplain. Her blog is at the Liberated Life Project.

Articles by Maia Duerr

This week’s front page editor

Francesc Badia i Dalmases is Editor and Director of democraciaAbierta.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Can religion be a force for transformation?

Maia Duerr 28 October 2013

Growing up with an abusive father, Ouyporn Khuankaew learned a distorted version of the Buddhist teaching on karma: her mother had done something in a past life to deserve the violence. Now, as a radical feminist lesbian, she teaches activists that Buddhism can be a way to fight oppression

Welcome to the Ministry of Social Transformation

Maia Duerr 11 July 2013

Looking for alternatives to “the denial-laden pseudo-optimistic think-happy-thoughts crap that so often passes for spirituality in numb, consumerist America?” Check out the work of the Protest Chaplains of Occupy who were interviewed by Maia Duerr.