Happy Turkey Day

by: admin

Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 10:59:44 AM CST

Are you ready for Black Friday? Is that a racist term my wife asked me last night? Any thoughts. I have no answer, I'm sure the answer is in a Chris Rock routine.

Here's a good story, appropriate for Thanksgiving, that a friend sent me

Three Clergymen, Three Faiths, One Friendship

It sounds like the start of a joke: a rabbi, a minister and a Muslim sheik walk into a restaurant.

The three say they became close not by avoiding or glossing over their conflicts, but by running straight at them.

But there they were, Rabbi Ted Falcon, the Rev. Don Mackenzie and Sheik Jamal Rahman, walking into an Indian restaurant, and afterward a Presbyterian church. The sanctuary was full of 250 people who came to hear them talk about how they had wrestled with their religious differences and emerged as friends.

They call themselves the "interfaith amigos." And while they do sometimes seem more like a stand-up comedy team than a trio of clergymen, they know they have a serious burden in making a case for interfaith understanding in a country reeling after a Muslim Army officer at Fort Hood, Tex., was charged with opening fire on his fellow soldiers, killing 13.