What, then, is the mission of CRES?
A2. Our mission arises from a fundamental question: “What is so important that my life depends upon it, and what may I do to honor and share it?” In theological language, the question is simply, “What is sacred?” Of course in daily life, the question takes may forms, and usually we deal with subsidiary questions, and sometimes we forget that those smaller but important questions can be answered best when we keep the big question in mind. Q3. But the mission of churches arises from similar questions. A3. Yes, and we contribute a special, perhaps crucial, enhancement, to their work. Rather than offering one primary tradition to answer the question, we seek to make available the resources of all the world’s traditions. We encourage representatives of various views to engage each other. The spheres of science, art, business, government, medicine, sports, and other expressions of human life must also be represented in such an engagement.
