This was the week for the first years in "DIY Religion" to present what they learned from interviewing fifteen of our alums. We have more work to do, drawing some more general conclusions from what were apparently warm and thoughtful conversations; that's work for next week. For this week we basked in the idiosyncratic accomplishments and inspiring ideas of our fabulous alums!
We got the world religions in there too, somehow - and then some! Our fifteen included folks who've found their DIY way to being a devotée of Guanyin, an Islamic feminist, the director of an avant garde theater company inspired by Jewish textual exegesis, an intimate of Ram Dass, three Christian priests (MCC, Episcopal and... it's complicated), a Radical Faerie, a rap-recording reviver of traditional Taíno language and spirituality and a young Zoroastrian. Wow...!
