Religion Is The Call To Confront Reality;

Swallow Your Pride And Admit That We All Need Help At Times.

Ancient Wisdom And Quantum Physicists Make Unlikely Bedfellows: In Quantum Mechanics The Observer Determines (or Even Brings Into Being) What Is Observed, And So, Too, For The Tiwis, Who Dissolve The Distinction Between Themselves And The Cosmos. In Quantum Physics, Subatomic Particles Influence Each Other From A Distance, And This Tallies With The Aboriginal View, In Which People, Animals, Rocks, And Trees All Weave Together In The Same Interwoven Fabric.

Religion Is The Call To Confront Reality; To Master The Self.

At The Center Of The Religious Life Is A Peculiar Kind Of Joy, The Prospect Of A Happy Ending That Blossoms From Necessarily Painful Ordeals, The Promise Of Human Difficulties Embraced And Overcome.

I Grew Up Taking It For Granted That Missionaries Were What American Boys Grew Up To Be.