The spirituality of the mystic and the scientist—a reverence for wonder and the possibility of never-ending discovery—also points a way forward for the orthodox of every tradition to live with the mystery of a world of kinship with the religious other and the nonbeliever. At their orthodox cores, all of our traditions insist on a reverence for what we do not know now and cannot tie up with explanation in this lifetime. This is an invitation to bring the particularities and passions of our identities into common life, while honoring the essential
