Book Two, Post 1

For Book 2, I believe that I am going to stick with, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, by Barbra Brown Taylor. Taylors book stood out to me because I find religion to be incredibly controversial. In particular, religions seemed to be built out of love yet nowadays evokes a lot of hate. Additionally, I find religion interesting because there are over 4,000 religions in our world that have different perspectives on the meaning of life, yet we only hear about the prominent ones within our society.

Taylors sounds as if she has a similar experience as myself regarding exposure to the diversity of religions our world has to offer. Growing up in a very conservative, christian part of the country, the only other religion that I was exposed to was Judaism. I had heard of other religions but had no idea what the religion was all about. Furthermore, I had never met someone who had believed that there was no afterlife at all. Therefore, when I came to Los Angeles, you can say that I had quite a big of a religious crisis. A lot of the people that I met were not Christian like me, and it was quite interesting to hear perspectives on religion that none of the kids I knew back from home shared. It was a change.

I do think that its important to acknowledge that there are a variety of religions that exist out in the world. From the books description, it sounds like Barbra embraces that acknowledgement. I am interested to see how her perspective on religion changed and if her experiences were similar to mine after receiving exposure to various new perspectives on life and whats to come after, if at all. 

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