Int'resting

A few months ago, I listened to a radio rebroadcast of the Rev. Alan Jones (the dean at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral) interviewing Karen Armstrong. They spoke of belief, not (as Jones quoted Armstrong) as "10 impossible things to believe before breakfast" but as "that which we give our heart to." Credo, Armstrong pointed out, comes from the word for "heart."

Belief, therefore, isn’t a set of tenets we must accept or an intellectual exercise but an emotional relationship, a commitment to love.

From Lindsay Crittendon's recent post at Image Blog.