Tag: Doctrine & Practice

I consider humor to be an essential – I enjoy it, and it’s a coping technique, when coping is needed.

When a water drop hits the surface of a pool we see it being absorbed by the surface and becoming a part of the greater pool. With the advent of extreme slow motion we see that the drop actually bounces a couple times to break the surface tension before it is able to be absorbed.

It may come as quite a shock to discover that in a country which prides itself on claims of religious freedom for all, that basic freedom was denied to the very people who inhabited North America first: the American Indian.

In attending churches and activities for faiths other than my own I have found that it is through interfaith dialogue, panels, and one on one discussion that I learn the most. I may never “understand” a faith path but what I can do is learn the underlying teaching and respect the
beliefs of that path

I have had a little more experience with the Jewish Passover than anything else.

My conclusion is that the spiritual “fault line” (if you will allow me a geological metaphor) is not best or most accurately drawn along the lines of which religion a person practices, as if the real issue in the religious and spiritual world today were whether or not a person is a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim or a Buddhist.

I was never one of those kids who could be appeased by the response, “Because I said so…”  It was insufficient, to say the least, and did nothing to quell the true curiosity or intent of my question — whatever that question may have been.