Yes, belief itself is a form of experience. Theologians are too often interested in reducing religion to belief or, worse, systems of belief. His outlook on life is quite similar to that of process theology, but he would never call himself a theologian, and for good reasons. He is an interfaith, justice-oriented, spiritually-sensitive writer for our time. Howard Thurman provides a model and needed wisdom. There is a yearning in our time, all over the world, for a way of being religious that finds the Spirit of God in the depths of life itself that is at home in the silence of the heart as well as the passion for justice that understands and appreciates the human need for localized religious and non-religious identities, while simultaneously welcoming a fellowship of all peoples whatever race, creed, or ethnicity.
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