These really are a people who live and breathe the realm of the sacred, a baroque religiosity that is simply awesome.

In post conflict societies like Croatia, where a hyper nationalism and religiosity have created an environment unbearable for anyone who might be considered a social outcast.

We traveled high into the paramo, and as we crested the hills, we realized that the men were interpreting every single bump on the landscape in terms of their own intense religiosity.

Now, in their religiosity, in their naivete, my mom and dad, which I believed them to be forever, as they said they were, my mom and dad conceived that I had the Devil inside of me.

And it is an arresting fact that right across the board, in every single one of the major world faiths, compassion the ability to feel with the other in the way we've been thinking about this evening is not only the test of any true religiosity, it is also what will bring us into the presence of what Jews, Christians and Muslims call God or the Divine.