That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

Diana L. Eck

Categorized in : Moving Kind Ongoing

If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but you wouldn't find a shrine there. At the headwaters of the rivers of India, they are pilgrimage places.

united-states india rivers

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

wells news people

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

issues identity america

I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel tradition. I became fascinated with the religious lives of others who seemed also to be very religious, yet in ways that were quite different from my own. That fascination led to relationships, in India and elsewhere, with families of Hindus, of Muslims, of Sikhs, and a lot of study.

mountain fascination religious

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.

buddhist swim sea

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

buddhist community people

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.

united-states government ideas

There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution, etc. But that's not the legal basis on which we're framed. So the flourishing of religion, of religious diversity, is really built into who we are.

religious christian country