This past few months I have been thinking about building my own framework for synthesising the best ideas from different religious traditions.
It seems that simply plucking ideas out of religious traditions is doing a disservice to their depth of meaning.
It seems better, rather, to truly learn and appreciate the depth of different traditions – and then synthesise your own ideas to address the challenges of the time – in good faith.
This way you are allowing the foundations of the past to remain strong and to continue to provide for the needs of the public without destabilising them.
It seems that the act of learning and appreciating from different traditions in good faith (without denying, destabilising or outsourcing one’s own foundations) is a touchstone of this generation’s religious imperative.