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Brian is the Executive Director of Encounter World Religions and the self declared Religions Geek. His greatest passion is teaching about religion, ethno-religious diversity and what that diversity means in our modern workplaces, schools and societies. Over the past 20 years, through the various programs delivered by Encounter, Brian has helped thousands of people understand more about religious, spiritual and secular identities in ways that help them be a better leader, colleague, neighbour and friend.

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How I Forgot the Naked Monk

By |July 8th, 2026|Categories: Life of Brian|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In recent years, Encounter’s work with Road Scholar has granted me the tremendous benefit of travelling to far-flung places around the world to teach travellers about the religions of the place they are visiting. Cairo, Japan, Bangkok – good gosh, it was all so wonderful. But then…..I got to India.  India is not a different country. It is a different planet. It amazed me and left me breathless. And I can only capture it best by saying: I forgot about the naked monk. Image: Monkey at Hanuman ji temple, [...]

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