tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259950009081603642.post2628123827274116127..comments2012-11-24T09:22:47.726+00:00Comments on A Dissenting Voice.: Love In The Face Of Difference.Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18326358224522029847noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259950009081603642.post-9445339443870090362012-06-07T00:43:16.745+01:002012-06-07T00:43:16.745+01:00Thanks for this post, Joseph. My partner of 23 yea...Thanks for this post, Joseph. My partner of 23 years was an agnostic person and I am an Unitarian Christian. We spent long hours discussing religious and spiritual things, but I never remember these conversations leading to a time of serious falling out. After his death I found amongst his papers this sonnet, which might interest you:<br /><br />AGNOSTIC<br />Presumptuous heart, what gives you that authority<br />To stand among the crowd, yet be alone?<br />What rights endow that incoherent quality<br />To know beyond a doubt that you don’t know?<br /> <br />With all my heart what my heart knows embracing,<br />Though it be dark and fearful, still it must<br />Hold to the dark and keep the heart’s eye tracing<br />Patterns of truth amid the doubt and dust.<br /><br />But when it comes, like some great river flowing<br />Singing and sure as love’s clear light evolves,<br />How shall I know you? Truth, you are the knowing.<br />One with my heart as all the dark dissolves.<br /> <br />Who speaks of rights? Our poor eyes nothing see<br />Save as our love gives them authority.Naomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05001117690040058089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259950009081603642.post-56103097849606487352012-05-07T11:19:00.613+01:002012-05-07T11:19:00.613+01:00Apologies if slightly off topic but re the referen...Apologies if slightly off topic but re the reference to the unitarian/free christian tension do you have any recommendations on good sources to read up on this?Casperhttp://www.casperdenck.comnoreply@blogger.com