I had not really come up
against other faith traditions, but there I was, living in a house among tower blocks, with a house mosque on the corner of my road.
Discuss how components of this support group format could be adapted to meet the needs of practitioners
of other faith traditions.
Now, however, we may acknowledge with more sincerity than before that the light that illuminates us in Christ also shines
through other faith traditions in other ways.
I imagined I'd know whether I was foolish and sinful to
explore other faith traditions, critically judge my own, consider leaving, let my doubts rule the day, or at least listen to them... and I prayed for peace.
Pastoral counseling has evolved from religious counseling to pastoral psychotherapy, which integrates theology and
other faith tradition knowledge, spirituality, the resources of faith communities, the behavioral sciences, and in recent years, systemic theory.
Our various parties and caucuses have different kinds of specialized knowledge: liberals are practiced in learning
from other faith traditions; evangelicals have expertise in nurturing and sustaining intense personal relationships with Jesus Christ.
Buddhists can't prove that they're right, neither can atheists, nor universalists, particularists, or
any other faith tradition.
(Protestants need to learn here from
other faith traditions.
If I were born into a faith organization that was a solid socialist oligarchy having fair flat tax, budget surpluses, welfare without shame, culturally sensitve worldwide outreach, and promise to rule over a planet of my own, I would find sticking around to be a good bet, and all the myths to be no more bizarre than those found in
other faith traditions.
And Americans have become less likely to know an evangelical — more so than
any other faith tradition.
Received understandings of the church's mission were challenged repeatedly by the observation that a good deal of what Christians see as integral to God's work with and in the world — economic justice, peace — is impossible without the participation of people from
other faith traditions.