Steve Tipton
Statement of support for Cuke Archives is on the Dana 2020 page
cuke.com interview with Steve Tipton
Books by Steve Tipton - there's a new one in 2025 - In and Out of Church: The Moral Arc of Spiritual Change in America. It's dedicated to Silas and Niels (Silas Hoadley and Niels Holm, two early Suzuki students and close friends who lived in Port Townsend).
Reincarnating Religion, a short article by Steve Tipton from The Martin Marty Center, The University of Chicago Divinity School. (PDF file)
YouTube video of Steve speaking about his book, Public Pulpits
Steve's page at the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation site.
Amazon's About Author - Steven M. Tipton is C.H. Candler Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Religion and Senior Research Fellow at Emory University, Candler School of Theology
To me he's an old dharma pal and fellow Shunryu Suzuki student and a lot of fun to be with. - DC
9-20-19 - Steve's wedding poem for Katrinka and DC
Memorial Poem by Steve for Niels Holm
From Steve Tipton on Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind quoted in the afterword to the 40th edition of ZMBM in ZMBM at 40
Steve Tipton, a Suzuki student who teaches sociology and religion at Emory University, wrote,
For all the genius of its cultural and canonical translation, the practical wisdom of this book arises from its communal creation, bred by teacher and students listening and talking to each other in the course of sitting, walking, and working together every day. Through the dance of this dialogue, embodied in a way of life reborn over eons and expressed with poetic grace, comes a truly original and compassionate voice so close at hand it can open our eyes and touch our hearts.
Steve's letter of support for the Zen Alumbrella (one of DCs fundraising efforts for the work toward preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki)
Steve Tipton quote for Crooked Cucumber
"Like a pebble dropped into a still pond with ever-widening waves of
resonance, here is the arc of a life unfolding across civilizations and
centuries of Buddhist practice to bring the way of Zen into the everyday lives
of a generation of American seekers. Shunryu Suzuki taught by example,
extraordinary in its ordinariness, leaving no trace except the transparent
wisdom and lucent joy of living in a world with nothing to hold on to and
everything to share.
-Steven Tipton, October 30, 1998
co-author of Habits of the Heart.
Steve Tipton quote for Thank You and OK!
"David Chadwick's THANK YOU AND OK!
is a breath of fresh air let in to the artsy, abstract confines of the Zen
cloister. It's breezy, immediate, a joy to read and a journey to join in
that can open your eyes, touch your feelings, and by its end change at least
a little how you understand the way you have come."
--Steve --co-author
of Habits of the Heart and The Good Society
Steve Tipton page at Emory - Candler School of Theology
Steve remember Steve Gaskin
Steve Tipton responds to Jeff Broadbent and DC's exchange On Progress East and West and Why - 11-05-14
Steve's wedding poem for Katrinka and DC
9-20-19 - Shunryu Suzuki student, prolific writer and teacher - sociology and theology - Steve Tipton is a close old friend. But he just learned that Katrinka and I got married here in Sanur three years ago. So he sent a poem. Thanks Steve!
Friends to Wed
At times two people waiting for each other
Make up a silent poem waiting to be song.
Clear-eyed words then pause, turn toward music
From an unseen source, an intuition longing
To incarnate airy knowledge and let it dance,
Set free to touch, to taste, by harmony itself
Heartfelt, and wound with scented symmetry
In what was wavy sonant space before this
Graceful measure brought senses to its sound.
ST
9/2019
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