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Date Posted:
12/15/2007
10:06:12 pm EST
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A Couple Of Faiths
Author: Mary Meehan Source: Kentucky.com
Title: A COUPLE OF FAITHS
The Christmas tree hasn't been put up yet, but it's coming.
It will find a place in the Blackburn/Fields household between the Wiccan altar in the front room and the orthodox Christian icon display in the eastern section of the house.
It is with the tree, a commercialized symbol of the holiday with roots in long-ago pagan rituals, that orthodox Christian Teena Blackburn and her husband Anthony Fields, a Wiccan, find common cultural ground.
But Blackburn and Fields, married six years, also find a meeting of the minds through their similar approaches to very different religious practices.
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| Yay! | Dec 17th. at 5:29:16 pm EST
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Sparrow (Chicago, Mississippi) - Email Me
This article really got me because I'm in an interfaith relationship (soon to be marriage) . There are times when I lay awake at night thinking - how in the world are we going to raise our children like this? Then I'll look at my fiance and realize that in the end, all that matters is that we love one another and that we'll teach our children that same love. He is a Christian, but he is a spiritual Christian, not a Bible Christian (he's more concerned with his relationship than what the Bible/church says his relationship should be) .
I have to say, our children will likely be some of the luckiest children alive, since we plan on incorporating both of our beliefs and traditions in. This year, for example, we have two Yule celebrations and four Christmas celebrations. ^__^ Still, it's always encouraging when you read about someone else doing it and knowing that if they can, you can.
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| A Very Interesting Article.. | Dec 17th. at 1:29:50 pm EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
It pretty much says it all.
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| None | Dec 16th. at 2:49:55 pm EST
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Black Butterfly (Jacksonville, Florida) - Email Me
Its wonderful how two people of two very different faiths can look beyond religion and see so many other good qualities in one another. I always seem to be seeing people of just about all faiths nitpick each other to death because they don't agree on religion. I wish people will just grow up and get over what religion other people are. I even see people on this website bad mouthing Christians. Just because I don't agree with Christian teachings means that I'm going to start ripping into them. If I do, then I'll just be ripping into my family as well. I just hope peope can take this little lesson to heart.
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