Also, the community should continue to be aware that we are very short on funds. If exploring what you believe in this context matters to you and you have the ability to support it financially, this would be a good time to do so. Now back to that nerdy moment…

Some of those texts I mentioned off the top (very few, percentage wise) have become venerated within their traditions; treated as “sacred canon”; collections of words that are regarded as complete, not to be changed or altered. It’s a common feature of many (perhaps even all) religions, as well as many literary traditions. It’s easy to think of these texts in a binary way; either something is a sacred text or it isn’t. However, even a brief study of the history of the collections commonly regarded as “scripture” reveals that is not the case. There are, in most religious traditions, degrees of sacred. And, there are texts representing those different degrees. In other words, not everything sacred is equally sacred. Which, of course, raises several questions, including “Who gets to decide?”, and “Are there things being written even now that might someday be regarded as sacred texts by following generations?”.  This Sunday, we’ll hear the story of a creative endeavor that lives in that realm of conjecture. Who knows… we might be hearing from someone history will regard as a Psalmist one day, the way we may presently think of the Hebrew King and songwriter, David. Interesting thought? Come out and explore it with the rest of us. It’ll be fun.  🙂

I’ll see you on Sunday.