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[quote]Not at all sure what you mean Doc. Faith Junction was a project Art Beyond Belief ran as a way of finding out what ordinary guys thought about their faith. It was across the four faiths represented in Slough, and was uncompromising. From October last year we have had a &quot;Festival of Dialogue&quot; which deals with issues that came out of Faith Junction. Yesterday saw the start of &quot;Borrow a person&quot; where anyone could go into Slough Library and talk to a faith representative about their faith. We had a Brama Kumari, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and two Muslims. They were there to answer &quot;faith&quot; questions. Last month we finished the last of our &quot;Round Table&quot; discussions as part of the Festival of Dialogue, covering discussions on Gender, Spirituality, Age, Responsibility, Compassion, and finally Religion in a secular world. For Spirituality, we discussed the difference between religion and spirituality, and whether people of faith were more spiritual than those of no faith. Some faith environments are not a particularly happy place to be if you are troubled by your gender, for example. Nor do faith communities show more compassion than secular communities. These are important issues, and to ascribe labels that suggest that they are compromising in order to be acceptable to to widest (lowest?) common denominator is below-the-belt. Faith communities often claim to have all the answers, yet a huge number of people have a knee-jerk reaction to the instant retort so often delivered without love or charity by a &quot;faith representative&quot;. I would add that our round table discussions have been concerned with both practical and spiritual matters. Often (as in the subject of compassion) they go hand in hand. I think we covered some real theological highs, and did this without compromise or distress. Indeed, I would especially like to thank you for your own part in these discussions. - David[/quote]

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