How can you live in the Northeast? How can you live in the South? How can you build on the banks of a river when the flood water pours from the mouth? How can you be a Christian? How can you be a Jew? How can you be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu? How can you?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker questions how people live in specific places or follow religions despite environmental or social challenges.
- In plain terms
- How do you live in those places or be that religion when things are hard?
- What can you take from it?
- Beliefs and places face difficult realities.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do geography shape identity?
- What sustains belief?
Another view
The question assumes all places or faiths face the same issues.
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