We Should Try to Understand

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I have memories of visiting

a black Baptist church,

a Korean Baptist church,

a Greek Orthodox Church,

a Lebanese church,

a couple of Catholic churches (including that gorgeous Catholic church in DC for a Christmas Eve Mass),

mosques,

Bible Study groups,

two synagogues,

a Buddhist temple in Watertown, MA,

a Hindu temple,

an Anabaptist church,

and a few Protestant churches.

I have always wanted to see

through multiple perspectives.

I went to the Hindu temple in Roanoke, VA, once

and I still remember that it was during their Spring Festival

of Holi because when I appeared at their doorstep,

the practitioners ran up to me and spread

pink powder all over my face

(and some of it fell on my shirt)

and they smiled and said, “It’s Holi!”

and I simply entered their temple

and sat there while witnessing their morning service.