In his book, McIntosh – who comes from a strongly Christian tradition – talks a great deal about the idea of loving your neighbour.
The tradition talks about a body of scriptures preached by all the tirthankaras of Jainism.
This is just what serious students of politics do: read the deepest thinkers in their traditions, talk to each other, go into government and try to influence it according to their best understandings of what is good.
The oral traditions talk about sorcerers digging holes and hot water soaring out, unusual noises from the crater and the exodus of tigers, monkeys and rabbits into the villages before the final eruption.
It is important to pass on traditions, talk about ancestry, tell stories, and make connections to the past.
Many faith traditions talk about the obligation to see and help the poor, the sick, and the suffering, but The Church of the Saviour, which Gordon and Mary co-founded with a few others in 1947, went far beyond most congregations' traditional notions of "service" with a radical devotion to justice, compassion, sisterhood and brotherhood, and servant leadership.
Research other faith and non-faith traditions, talk to practitioners, and visit places of worship or study.
The alt-weekly was one of the first places I saw black cultural traditions talked about with both familial love and critical rigor.
Even though the ancient spiritual traditions talked about dark nights of the soul, wrathful deities, hell drums, all kinds of things that had to do with dark energies, they didn't understand repression and the unconscious.
In this modern, democratic, liberal tradition, we talk about respect and the equal dignity of persons.
