IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES that can come from really living this understanding of wholeness.
MY RELIGION PROFESSOR'S THOUGHT-PROVOKING perspective on Jesus' parable of the lost sheep made me think. I had to ask myself: Which one experiences the greater deficiency—one lost sheep or the flock that has lost it?
When I took his college class a few years ago, my professor opened my eyes to a perspective on Christianity I'd never considered—the Eastern perspective. He came from India and was a greatly respected Bishop of the Indian Orthodox Church. He taught class wearing a cross and his full vesture of robes. He told us many "legends of the church," the journeys of Jesus' disciples, their missionary work, and their interactions with Jesus. I suppose, then, that I should not have been surprised to find that even the most straightforward Bible parable (or so I thought) could be subject to a radically different interpretation than the one I'd learned in Sunday School.
