Happy New Year! Happy year of the snake. Here’s hoping it’s a king snake and not a cobra! New Years, of course, are very Interfaithy. Every culture has one. Every spiritual path either has a New Year of its own, or has adopted one. And we here get to celebrate them all. Last year, we built a service around the Chinese New Year. This year we have another theme. But it is good to remember the lunar new year, and to recognize it. As Interfaithers, we recognize that there’s no one “right” date to start the year, no one “right” way to celebrate the new year, just as there is no one “right” way to pray about the new year. And I think it’s important to note, for posterity, that it’s not ambivalence. It is notambivalence. It is respect. This is the foundation, this is the paradigm shift that is at the core of who we are: remembering our own traditions, ...
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