NPR talks to Rabbi Joshua Martin Siegel who has been recently hired by the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church to study Christianity and work on their staff.
Siegel brings out some interesting points…
- Sometimes out of your pain and suffering you can find God.
- I’ve learned about how hard it is been to be Christian. They struggle with this image of Jesus. All that He is all that He was and all that He accomplished. They’re beset by the secular culture and they’re beset by a lot of things and they’re beset by this curse of having been all powerful. They’re so used to being everywhere that they don’t know how to be not everywhere so they suffer with this new minority status. That’s a whole new ball game for them.
- Who’s at the center? You or something larger than yourself which you must give allegiance?
