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Dan McClellan again - I appreciate his commentaries. The first one above is broadly about changes in the text of the bible in bible history - compilation, editing, redaction, and translation He discusses the history, and how scholars and translators look at and compare the source materials they...

Some observations - Where I now live, there is a church building around the corner on the next block. It used to house the Third Reformed Church (Dutch reformed but they don't use the term Dutch as often anymore) I went to a service there once a few years ago. It just didn't click for me. I...

Not yet, but I saw a commentary on it awhile back and it sounds like thoughtful storytelling about relationships. It reminded me some of "The Incredible Journey" which I saw as a kid - but I guess was not new then - it was from the 1960s.

These all sound like good ideas.

😇 Still do sometimes, people go door to door evangelizing too. Or just to announce a new church is in the neighborhood. I remember my mom and grandpa, sometimes my grandma, having some antipathy to religion. Sometimes for hypocrisy, or other problems as they perceived them. My grandma thought...

Looking back I feel I was lucky too, to have what I did in terms of diverse influence. I used to sometimes wish that we belonged to some kind of regular religion to be more like everybody else, but now I'm glad for the unique shape of spirituality in my childhood home. If nothing else, religious...

I remember my grandmother having a Ouija board for a time. She believed the house was haunted by a ghost she called Herman. I thought of it like Halloween ghost stories or Caspar the friendly ghost She blamed Herman for things disappearing or being moved around. I only learned quite a bit later...

I also remember contact with our Pueblo neighbors, (when we lived out West) my mom had been close to them growing up. The culture was different, but I didn't know as much because I did not get to spend as much time with them as my mom did growing up due to the closest kid my age was a few years...

I thought C of E were fairly high church and did mass? Don't they have Sunday services at least?🧐

I relate about the rural. I too lived in a rural area when we moved to Northeast. There were numerous denominations around, in my small school there was at least one JW family and at least one Jewish family. The children were popular, so to my observation they didn't seem to be discriminated...

I'm pretty sure they just dolloped sour cream, maybe butter, on a nicely baked potato then put an entire quart of shredded cheese on top of it. Or maybe it's mac and cheese? I think it's just shredded cheese....🧐 You can see it's even in the shape of the quart tub. :oops: o_O 🤪

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/trump-inject-disinfectant-bleach-coronavirus.html breaks it down a little more

Probably referring to this

Hi! I hope you enjoy speaking to people with differing beliefs and the lively conversation that can grow from that!

I'd like to know more about that... You said you'd join my thread...

This is all a really good point.

I remember another little girl at school trying to instruct me in prayer. I am not sure, but I think that happened because she approached me and asked me about my religion or something. I wonder, was she being instructed at home or at church to do that at school?

I remember my aunt being interested in horoscopes and tea leaves, and my grandmother (and mom somewhat) getting interested for a time.

For some reason I was fascinated by religion, I guess from being (mostly) on the outside looking in. When I did read through the bible a couple of times as a teenager, I wasn't sure what to make of it. I couldn't figure out how anybody drew any conclusions from it, much less drew enough...

Here's my thread https://www.interfaith.org/community/threads/21559/ I am! I'm all for that - but it's nice to share too. And there must be a reason you like interfaith dialogue? Even if you are solitary buddha who does not teach disciples, does that mean you will generally not share...