Freelance Monotheist

[Rev.Jason Derr]

My wife is an Anglican who prays with the Muslims at the university where she is getting her degree. next up she wants to get a MA in Hebrew Bible.

She said last night she was a follower of 'Christlam' as she is Christian but finds Islamic prayer very important to her.

Anyone else on here have duel spiritual identities?

[ray]

Hmm... I'll plunge in first! Nice to meet you, thanks for the friend add, Jason.

I can't say I have a dual spiritual identity per se, although I find various wisdom principles in other world religions inspiring and helpful in informing my own Christian understanding and walk. I particularly like reading the Dhammapada and some of the commentary by the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh. These are fairly recent discoveries, but I stop shy of practicing Buddhist meditation. Rather I try to take those ideas of cultivating compassion by seeing it, praying for it to increase in my life, and to practice it whenever I can. I suspect my christology might be a little higher than your wife's when it comes to actually practicing another religion's faith practice/s, though.

interesting topic! :-)

[Rev.Jason Derr]

She is trying to stop short of being a tourist in another persons faith, but is trying to explore the depths of other traditions and pathes. One of our closest friends is Muslim so we have someone in the tradition to bounce ideas off of.

Have you explored any of the Christian Meditation practices. I have a group i go to weekly. It goes back to the monastic movements and the desert fathers and I find it very rewarding.

[ray]

Centering Prayer, lectio divina, Ignatian prayer, Anglican prayer beads... all of the above. :-) I don't practice any of these with a group currently and I don't practice any of these on a regular basis, unfortunately. There are other prayer practices I employ on a more regular basis, but I *DO* like and appreciate these more contemplative practices, too. :-)

[Rev.Jason Derr]

Mostly I just walk and pray. But my weekly meditation group has been good for me. As i am ADHD learning to still myself has been a 'growing edge' of my journey! My wife prays with the Muslim women at the university and gets much out of that. A friend of ours who is Jewish calls himself a Jewslam as he converted to Islam for a few years and then converted back, but still practices Islamic prayer. So many spiritual practices, so little time.