Some People Simply Bury Their

My Study Of Religion, Which I Regard In Many Ways As An Art Form, Is A Search For Meaning.

The More Aggressive Our Ideologies Become, The More Aggressive Our Discourse Whether It's In The United States, From Washington D.c., Or Whether It's From Tehran, Or From Some Underground Al-qaeda Cell. The More Aggressive That Discourse Is, The More People Of Moderate Persuasion Have To Organize And Speak A Voice Of Compassion. That Means To Feel With The Other.

Now I Think One Of The Reasons Why Religion Developed In The Way That It Did Over The Centuries Was Precisely To Curb This Murderous Bent That We Have As Human Beings.

Often When Religious Leaders Come Together, They Talk About A Particular Sexual Ethic, Or An Abstruse Doctrine, As Though This, Rather Than Compassion, Was The Test Of Spiritual Life.

We Should Probably All Pause To Confront Our Past From Time To Time, Because It Changes Its Meaning As Our Circumstances Alter.