The five-week series on "Faiths of Our Neighbors" at West Grove Friends Meeting ended with a panel discussion among a Sufi, a Jew, a Hindu and a Buddhist, each of whom had presented a lecture on his or her faith tradition in preceding weeks. I was struck by the way that the practitioners individualized their spiritual practices to create the most meaning for them: meditating alone or with others, or doing yoga, or praying to a favorite god at a shrine, or downloading a mindfulness chime to their smartphones.
The final discussion was a bit cerebral for me, but overall I enjoyed the Wednesday-night talks very much. I'm told they are thinking of doing another series in the spring.
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