What Barack Obama Should Do About Rick Warren
Filed by: Dana Rudolph
December 21, 2008 5:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/what_barack_obama_should_do_about_rick_w.php

At my alma mater, Wellesley College, on the first Sunday of the school year, students gather at the chapel for "Flower Sunday," one of the oldest traditions of the College. While Flower Sunday has Protestant roots, the service has evolved into a multi-faith celebration, with chaplains of the entire Religious and Spiritual Life team participating: Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Unitarian, and whatever other faiths are currently represented and serving students' needs. It is a festive celebration of love and faith, filled with dance and song. It is so popular that the College now also holds Flower Sundays for alumnae during Reunion and the yearly conference for alumnae class officers.

I am an agnostic verging on atheism, with gastronomic, not spiritual, ties to my very reform Jewish roots. Still, I make a point to go to Flower Sunday every time I return to the College for Reunion or the alumnae conference, for I love the message it conveys. We are a community of diverse faiths and practices, but we can come together in celebration and sisterhood to share our traditions. There is a lesson here for our president-elect.