I shared this quote during our Emergent gathering. It captures beautifully our intention:

Religion is at its best when it becomes a countercultural force; when it has no power, only influence, no authority except that which it earns, no claim to people"s attention other than by the way it creates values that cannot be found elsewhere. It is then that it loses its perennial tendency to corruption and becomes again what it once was—a startling new voice, redeeming us and teaching us to remember what so much else persuades us to forget—that the possibilities of happiness are all around us, if we would only open our eyes and give thanks. – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “Faith: the undiscovered country.” In his Celebrating Life: Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places (Continuum, 2000), p.192.

Shabbat shalom.

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