Religion has no place in the state, just as the state has no place in religion.

Bright Orthodoxy will neither endorse nor lament the incoming administration. We can though acknowledge the likelihood of deregulation across several sectors, and the destabilization that comes with sweeping changes. Bright Orthodoxy will serve her people through these, as our practices have served people since prehistory and through the rise and fall of nations.

• We encourage pragmatic community building and embrace the interfaith dialogue, ecumenism, tolerance, and self-assessment inherent to the task. All are welcome, regardless of their religious background or beliefs (or lack thereof), on their own terms.

• We encourage fitness and physical competence to the degree that each is able. Our spiritual forerunners found God in the wilderness, survived by readiness, and spread their news with endurance. “They will run and not grow weary,” in mind nor body.

• We encourage sobriety and moderation in our diets. The Bible directs us to glorify God in our body; so we prefer natural foods grown in natural ways, consumed in fellowship and toward best health.

• Bright Orthodoxy encourages ownership of our food infrastructure, lived by our spiritual siblings as adherence to kosher or halal dietary laws.

• We encourage scrupulous cleanliness as a community health measure. The Prophet Muhammad’s hygiene recommendations pre-empted the CDC’s guidance for the coronavirus by over a thousand years.

• We encourage scholarship, most particularly applied learning. On this point, Bright Books has already published a values-driven educational resource for parents of young children—this program is as appropriate in a secular unschooling approach as in that of a faith-based homeschool.

Bright Orthodoxy takes this uncertainty as an opportunity and an obligation. We are being asked to focus ourselves on this doctrine so Bright Orthodoxy can steady us and see us through.

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