Call and Response

The stories of a girl and her boy trying to do God's work in the world. Country mice settle in to the big city. I am a third-year divinity student at Candler School of Theology and my husband is teaching AP History at a big high school in a big metro area school district. We love our church and our city, but don't know what lies over the next horizon. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes....

Saturday, March 04, 2006

One reason I don't like creeds

Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you may disbelieve all the rest; otherwise you will lose much good, nay, you will fail to recognize the real truth of the matter. God, the omnipresent and omnipotent, is not confined to any one creed, for, he says, “Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah.”

-- the Sufi mystic Ibn al-Arabi,
quoted in The Spiral Staircase, by Karen Armstrong
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Comments:

Greetings from a fellow blogger! I just discovered your blog, and I'm honored to be linked here. I've posted a link to you at the Blog of the Grateful Bear, under "Atlanta Friends with Blogs." Hope to meet you someday; I'm in Marietta, near Kennesaw Mountain.

# posted by  Darrell Grizzle : 10:54 AM

 

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