The Language of the Creep

"I'm rooted in my own Calvinist tradition, but I've journeyed where I've been," he says. "There's a whole bunch of realities that can be grasped, but not necessarily verbalized" Orthodox theology is more fluid and flexible mystical than the Western approach to God as an all-encompassing being who knows everything about him or her. But you know, maybe if you pray and I are praying and we both meet the same God, we look at each other in our Christian tradition and realize we both met the same God? And there's that living encounter."