Beyond the religion of childhood

I was listening this morning to "To the Best of Our Knowledge" on NPR. A fabulous show, with lots of interest to us: an interview with a formerly Muslim atheist woman, an interview with Philip Pullman about his new book on Jesus and Christ, a sociological study of Scandinavia as a non-theistic set of countries that seem to do just fine morally, and interviews with people no longer practicing the religion of their childhood. All very pertinent to discussions we've been having in the Guild recently about potential participants in our seminars. You can get a podcast of the show free at:

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4819402

This tells me that there are bunches of people out there who are intelligently interested in questions of meaning and purpose, not particularly connected to organized religion, seeking communities of reflection and practice, and open to re-thinking the Jesus narratives and other sacred stories. These are people for whom we have something valuable to offer. We just have to get to them! Some of the vocabulary in this broadcast might help us.