THE WONDERS AND DANGERS OF AN OPEN MIND

It takes a rare venture of will and imagination and intelligence and courage to live with an open mind, to deliberately look for that which is difficult, dangerous, new or disturbing. Rilke, the poet, says life is a journey of being defeated by greater and greater things.

A graduate of Andover Newton Theological Seminary near Boston, Phil Sweet is described by Norbert Blei: “He feels he went into the ministry partly because he wanted to somehow confront the kind of established conservative form of religion grounded on nonsensical dogmas and formulated long before man was aware of any physical laws.”

Music: Gerri Friedberg