#71 | Jay Kiskel | Keep the Enumerated List of Sources

[greenie (Mary Mullen)]

@Poster1

The living tradition which we share draws from many sources:

• Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
• Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion and the transforming power of love;
• Wisdom from the world’s religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
• Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
• Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit;
• Spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature…

And from Katherine Hyde in her comment to Jay Kiskel: From The one thing I would do to update this is to combine the third and fourth Sources, as follows: Wisdom from world religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and more, which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;

Listed Sources, as in our current bylaws, are by far more concrete and understandable that the proposed "C-2.3. Inspirations phrase “sacred and secular understandings that help us to live into our values.” Keep the listed Sources, though titling them “Sources of Inspirations” is good.