Framing Spirituality and Reframing Politics

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The belief that God is bigger
than my tradition

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and to be open to that which
is of God in every religion,

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just opens me to
the possibility of engaging

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truth in a way that I had never
expected to engage in before.

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And ... certainly ...

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I really think that the Bismillah
is a way of framing spirituality

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and reframing politics, that could
be profoundly transformative.

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My Muslim friends say that
maybe that phrase

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at the beginning of each Sura

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Is not there just as
an evocation of God,

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but a key to interpreting the text.

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In other words that we should
then interpret the text

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in the light of the mercy
and grace of God

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and any interpretation

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that does not reflect God's
mercy Grace is not of God.

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And I think that that is of
extraordinary significance.

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This can reframe the way we
engage our sacred texts

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and this has really important
personal and political implications