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Jun. 16th, 2009 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafI can think of one or two people on my flist who may be interested in this Guardian article on a black woman rabbi from the US, Alysa Stanton, and the difficulties she has faced as a convert and a black woman, both from her birth community, white Christians, and her new community - but also the positives.
Gruaniad spell-checking strikes again, though: She was attracted to it she says because Judaism encompasses not just religion but also spiritualism, social justice and community.
I'm not Jewish, but I'm pretty sure they mean 'spirituality'. Though it also makes me rather sad, because Christianity encompasses all these thing (well, not spiritualism), which suggests how often the church is bad at doing what it's supposed to (though every conversion is complicated, and I would put money on there being a bigger theological issue that journalists generally don't want to get into. Such as, say, the Trinity, or the divinity of Christ).
Gruaniad spell-checking strikes again, though: She was attracted to it she says because Judaism encompasses not just religion but also spiritualism, social justice and community.
I'm not Jewish, but I'm pretty sure they mean 'spirituality'. Though it also makes me rather sad, because Christianity encompasses all these thing (well, not spiritualism), which suggests how often the church is bad at doing what it's supposed to (though every conversion is complicated, and I would put money on there being a bigger theological issue that journalists generally don't want to get into. Such as, say, the Trinity, or the divinity of Christ).