Foundations of Monastic Pacifism: Trialogue I (Moses)
Foundations of Monastic Pacifism Triplicity 1: Spring 2026 Publication Schedule: Moses: April 2 Buddha: May 7 Jesus: June 4 Foundations I: Moses — The Law and the Particular It is a late evening in early April, the air outside the Hudson Valley study damp with the scent of thawing earth and the first tentative yellow of the forsythia. Inside, the Trialogue is held in a room that balances the ancient with the digital: a low-light OLED screen in the corner flickers with the soft amber glow of the UN General Assembly’s Interactive Dialogue feed, while a heavy slab of local oak holds the weight of three distinct vocations. A Buddhist monk in the brown robes of the Order of Interbeing sits across from a Trappist in traditional black and white, while between them, the Zionist Federalist—a vegan Rabbi wearing a linen blazer and a hand-woven tallit—pours three cups of steaming oat-milk chai. On the table, the Torah, a 1948 copy of the Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution, and a digital ta...