This book is a timely read especially in the climate of intolerance of the ‘other’ that we experience in our world today.
Prairie Messenger
Reid Locklin addresses his book to readers who are suspicious of organized religion. He eschews neatly packaged answers to the question of institutional commitment, and instead narrates elements of his own passage from religious dabbler to membership in the Roman Catholic Church and participant in interreligious dialog. He interweaves his story with readings and reflections on the Gospel of John, the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, and the eight-century Hindu teacher Adi Shankaracharaya. The result is a lively and inviting conversation that responds to the concerns of a new generation of religious seekers in a way that is ‘allusive and personal–a soft porch light, left shining to welcome late arrivals inside rather than to demand of them where exactly they have been.’
Spiritus
This writing, as both an invitation and a response, offers a fresh view of the Christian Church as a raft rather than an obstacle on the journey to the farther spiritual shore.
Pastoral Music
The book is an eloquent apology for personal commitment to a religious institution as an essential part of spiritual life, for being spiritual and religious.
Catholic Books Review
Have you heard some young people say with all good intentions that they are spiritual but not religious? Author Reid B. Locklin details his thoughts on the journey toward commitment in Spiritual But Not Religious? An Oar Stroke Closer to the Farther Shore. By drawing primarily on Hindu and Christian tradition he offers a ‘credible spirituality of institution commitment’ as he talks about his experience as a convert.
CRUX of the News
Drawing upon his experience, as well as wisdom rooted in the Hindu and Christian religious traditions, Reid Locklin offers a thinking person’s guide to commitment in a world characterized by religious pluralism.
Ecumenism
A profound contemplation and mediation of differing specifics in pursuit of a general goal—reverence and love for the Divine.
The Midwest Book Review
This is narrative theology at its best. Reid Locklin's journey as a seeker is relentlessly honest, theologically astute, and spiritually enlightening - and full of grace.
Donald Cozzens, John Carroll University, Author of The Changing Face of the Priesthood, Faith That Dares to Speak, and Sacred Silence
