Nick Street
The grandson of two Southern Baptist ministers, I grew up in a small city in north Alabama. I studied Christian ethics as an undergraduate at Oberlin College and in seminary at Emory University.
After a brief stint in the doctoral program in religious ethics at the University of Virginia, I moved to New York City and began a career as a religion editor in the world of academic publishing. Since 1998 I've lived in California, where I encountered a teacher in the living lineage of Zen Buddhism. Then, as they say, the penny dropped. I ordained as a Soto Zen priest on March 17 (St. Patrick's Day).
In the summer of 2006 I worked as an intern at The Standard, an English-language, business-oriented newspaper in Hong Kong. I also visited about half a dozen sites associated with key figures in the Ch'an (Chinese Zen) Buddhist lineage.
As a contributing writer at The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, I've written profiles of Jewish astronomers, a gay rabbi who ministers to a prison shul, same-sex couples who have converted to Judaism, and Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of Gilligan's Island.
My main interests as a journalist are religion, astronomy, neuroscience and gay spirituality.
News21 stories by Nick Street
- Essay: Take a breath
- Transcendental Meditation in Schools
- Everything New is Old
- Consciousness as Reality
- Full Metal Lotus
- Pointing Down to Heaven
- Interview with an Atheist
