Under fire from Conservatives, an Episcopalian Zen practitioner’s shot at becoming a Bishop is in jeopardy. A stroll through Christian history puts Forrester’s practices in perspective.
Is authentic religious commitment incompatible with critical thinking, reason, or compromise, as philosopher Simon Critchley seems to imply in a recent essay on Obama? Or is our challenge to refuse the false oppositions between total transformation and conflict, or politics and piety?
