Spirituality, Translation, and Taoism: Understanding Over Thousands of Years

Spirituality, Translation, and Taoism: Understanding Over Thousands of Years

Many of the texts we see as foundational to our collective understanding of the world, culture, and faith practices are not native to English, but at one point have been reinterpreted from another language. In this service we’ll explore how Taoism, a philosophical tradition dating back over two-thousand years, can help us think about language, and what it means to truly read and understand what another human has written.

Worship Leader Bio: Daniel Korn is a local theater producer and scientific researcher. He works on the tech team and is a member of the First Church Voices choir. He has had a lifelong interest in literature, patterns, and linguistics for many years, and professionally studies methods for using computers to represent biomedical concepts and information.”