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The article presents a speech by Bryan Appleyard, delivered at the Bhuddist Society in 2003 in which he discussed the aspects behind the moment of truth, the change as the most basic universal law, and the importance of Buddhist practice.

Presents the minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Buddhist Society in Westminster, England. Total number of members present at the meeting; Topics discussed at the meeting; Election of Council officers and members.

This article assumes that scientists can be fundamentalists too. Science is indeed the faith, system, theory, methodology that sustains liberal democratic secularism. The secularist is on solid ground only when he says that science works and that it accumulates. The fatal extrapolation to make from this position is that it must, therefore, potentially be omnicompetent and omniscient. Scientific fundamentalism is the belief that the world is accessible to and ultimately controllable by human reason. Scientific fundamentalism deludes people with dreams of competence; it expects too much of this world, just as religious fundamentalism expects too much of the next.

Presents the ideas of the author, a creationist, on the debate between evolutionism and creationism. Idea that wide claims may be made in evolution because many of its theories are difficult to disprove; Idea that the discoveries of science will make religion, literature, art and rhetoric obsolete.

Profiles rock singer Keith Richards. Dope days in the 1970s; Thoughts on his band, the Rolling Stones; Marriage to Patti Hansen; Death of his son.

The article presents the authors' views on Venerable Myokyo-ni, head of the Zen Centre in London, and her death. One author shares his first encounter with Myokyo-ni, and notes that her completion of 12 years of hard traditional Zen monastic training as a middle-aged Western woman was truly remarkable. The second author believes that Myokyo-ni's death marked the passing of one of the great figures of traditional Buddhist teaching in western Europe.