Peg Kerr's Journal

What an excellent column! Unfortunately, almost my entire experience with Christianity has been with that radical right that trades in absolutes and "direct lines to God" and not in compassion or love or forgiveness. However, as I've moved away from that in my own life, the few Christian friends I have kept have been largely Catholic--and as Ms. Quindlen states, I find the quality of their belief is not expressed in soundbytes and pronouncements, but in a willingness to listen, to love, and to accept--and in thinking deeply and what and why they believe. I've been quite impressed with those friends individually and as a whole.