by cutsinger | Jun 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Any number of posts on this weblog have been connected in one way or another with the dilemma you describe. As I’ve said before—though perhaps not quite in these terms—there’s simply no verbal formula that will provide a final resolution to the...
by cutsinger | Jun 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
After receiving your earlier message, my first thought was to recommend that you persist within the Islamic form, practicing it from the perspective of the religio perennis and exercising as much love as you wish for Christ and Christianity. Several of my closest Sufi...
by cutsinger | Jun 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
You’re very right to observe that the Jewish and Christian traditions proscribe homosexual acts, as do the other major religions, including Islam, Hinduism (at least for the “twice-born”), Buddhism, and Taoism. It’s important of course to...
by cutsinger | May 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Thank you for your comment on the newly posted lecture “Disagreeing to Agree”, my contribution to the recent Common Word symposium at the University of South Carolina (currently first in the queue here). With your usual nose for controversy, you’ve...
by cutsinger | May 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Thanks—to several inquirers and correspondents—for your patience. End of term academic responsibilities and numerous other commitments over the last few weeks resulted in a much longer delay than I had expected in revising and posting the lecture I...