I was at a work site and picked up a leaflet with the title “(Way More Than) 100 Things Every Religious Liberal Should Know” (note: I first published this in 2013, but as I accumulate series of posts, I'm trying to organize a bit differently)

My first thought was: Why is this church trying to limit the audience? Okay, maybe I read more into that than I need to…but then, the next paragraph...(A list of terms and ideas that every religious liberal should know, to be religiously literate.)

So they iterated twice, that the list is for religious liberals (a discussion for another day.) I’m a long way from liberal, but I’m pretty religiously literate. There are nearly 200 terms on this list and I’m at least passingly familiar with many, if not most of them.

Anyway...if I post once a week from this list, that's more than three years!

1. Sh’ma
2. Yin and Yang
3. Tanakh
4. Trinity
5. 4 Vedas

...continue reading →