A Third Way

EI [Ecumenical Institute] was a radical approach to the gospels that was not a conservative literalism but also was not a liberal humanism either. Both the Right and the Left were left behind. The unique thing is that RS-I [Religious Studies I] opened the door to a way of being even more fundamental than the fundamentalists without a literal interpretation of scripture and at the same time more socially radical than the liberal social gospel. . . . The split into two nations between secularists and religionists is a spiritual rift between two fundamentalists. The tragedy is that true spirituality and healing is not found in either of these two approaches to viewing the world. . . . What is needed is the third way, the way of the secular-religious. ~Douglas Druckenmiller