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 "problem"...

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...

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 specify "acts"—that is,...

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 pointed—very...

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...

During the course of your daily sessions of prayer, you say, the Name of Allāh has occasionally "interposed" itself while you were repeating the Jesus Prayer, and you want to know what I think. It goes without saying, of course, that there's nothing "un-Christian"...

A comment appeared a few days ago here on Anamn?sis. Written by someone operating under the alias "Thurbolt Smagg"—my first thought, I confess, was that one of the diabolical legion in C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters had begun reading this weblog—it was...

I'm not surprised you had "some reservations" regarding my comments at the Common Word conference last week. You will understand, of course, that in the concluding section of the paper I was deliberately pushing past the dogmatic limits of the Christian tradition in...

Several correspondents have inquired about the upcoming Common Word conference at the University of South Carolina, which I mentioned in my last post, "Esoteric Ecumenism", so I thought I should provide some additional information. This is one in a series of...

I agree that esoteric ecumenism is "necessarily elitist", though I would be quick to add that "learned" is the wrong word to describe the elite in question. After all, an esoterist need not be a Ph.D.'d scholar who has read many books. But I disagree with your claim...