
It's a Material World - Religion & Discovery Week 2018
Ahhh, Discovery Week! When 45 people set aside 7 days to come, learn and explore religion. It fills my heart to be honest. A theme I talked about this year is the religion's material side. Western domination of the globe in recent centuries has allowed the West's most dominant religion (Protestant Christianity) to shape what we think "religion" is. Protestantism emphasizes beliefs & doctrines while leaving out (or sometimes denigrating) the material aspects of religion. This