Mohandas Gandhi, quoted in Diana Eck, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Benares. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p. 219.
I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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To be radically open to the presence of God today means to open ourselves to the understanding of God in other faith traditions. In this way we will re-encounter God’s strangeness. There is always an element of strangeness that remains within our own tradition. Jesus’s sayings and parables are a good example of scripture that retains an element of strangeness even after it has been read and meditated upon many times. However, sometimes our understanding of God can become stale and closed-minded. As we attempt to understand God as our neighbor does, we may learn something new about God’s presence that brings us into closer relationship with both God and our neighbor.
Thank you, Lindsay, for exposing some of the world's scriptures in this Lectio Divina section of your Website.
God/ess Brilliant, Enlighten us to your Way of wonder, power, and diversity. Open our minds to receive your truth, even as we might not understand it fully. Help us at least to allow for differences with grace. Awomen.
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