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  Today's book excerpt comes from  An Afternoon's Dictation  by  Steven Greenebaum . This book has been in the Amazon top 100 among interfaith and ecumenical books on many occasions. PART ONE: THE CALL TO INTERFAITH CHAPTER TWO   “Religion is but a language for speaking to Me.” It’s hard to overstate how crucial this revelation was. In the 50 years of my life that preceded the revelation, that thought had never once occurred to me, now that it was laid in in my lap it made perfect sense. It made sense and answered a bucket-full of questions. The first and most pressing question it answered for me was this: if there were indeed one and only one “right” answer to the question of God and how to relate to God, why didn’t humanity know what that answer was? After thousands upon thousands of years, why were there so many differing answers? The ancient Greeks were no dummies. They’d gifted us Sophocles, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and so many other brilliant thin...

  There comes a time in every life when we stop and ask: What now? What meaning can I find in this world—so full of division, uncertainty, and longing? For Steven Greenebaum, that moment came at the age of fifty, standing at a crossroads of anger, confusion, and deep spiritual yearning. What happened next changed the course of his life—and might just illuminate yours. An Afternoon's Dictation  began with three handwritten pages of what Steven calls “dictation”—words that came not from doctrine or dogma but from a still, inner voice. These pages offered no rules, no requirements—just gentle, profound guidance for living with purpose, compassion, and connection. But Steven didn’t stop there. Over the next ten years, he examined these revelations deeply, allowing them to unfold into a path not of exclusion but of embrace —one that finds wisdom not in one faith tradition, but in the space between them all. The book that emerged is a rich, meditative exploration of universal calli...

  In an age when religious conflict and spiritual fragmentation seem to dominate the headlines, it’s easy to forget that love—not doctrine—lies at the heart of nearly every faith tradition. Whether whispered in a mosque, sung in a temple, prayed in a church, or meditated upon in silence, love is the thread that runs through them all. But can love truly unite all faiths? An Afternoon’s Dictation: Revelation for the 21st Century offers a gentle, yet powerful answer: yes, if we allow it to. When author Steven Greenebaum cried out for meaning during a deeply unsettled time in his life, he didn’t expect an answer. What came instead was a voice—one that invited him to write, not commandments, but compassionate wisdom for living a meaningful life. What emerged was a sacred message that reaches across traditions, reminding us that different religions are not different truths, but different languages for speaking to the same divine. One of the book’s core revelations urges us to “Seek trut...