Im/practical Mysticism

In the glossary I am writing at my spirituality workshop StudioZero.org, I finally got around to composing an entry for interfaith.

It took a while to get my head around what I wanted to say, because I have observed people use interfaith in such a variety of ways.  Eventually, I deciphered two major camps: people who think of interfaith as communication happening between established religions, and people who think of interfaith as being a common ground where many religions can be combined or unified.

To me, one of the most interesting questions on the subject of interfaith spirituality is: do you have to belong to one particular religion before you do fruitful interfaith work, or can you belong to an interfaith "place" that transcends particular religions?  There are widely diverging answers to that question -- which often go unstated in differing understandings of this word interfaith.

Still, I like this word for getting dialog started...

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