Risk and religion: St. George's speaker on embracing compassion amidst nationalism

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By KATRINA DIX THE FREE LANCE–STAR


How does a Christian reverend come to deliver the funeral service for a Hindu?

When it was a last wish of the deceased.

Relating the story Sunday during the last talk of a Lenten Weekend program, “Being Passionately Christian and Becoming Compassionately Interfaith,” at St. George’s Episcopal Church, the Rev. Sathianathan Clarke spoke on ways to think about religion in a climate of nationalism and religious hostility.

The reverend teaches on Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and other topics as the Bishop Sundo Kim Chair for World Christianity at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

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