Page 22 - Built For Greatness - The Christian Edition of the Tao Te Ching

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Preface

An Improbable, Remarkable Journey

You may be asking yourself, how did an emeritus archbishop from
Canada ever get involved in co-authoring a book on the Tao Te
Ching?

The answer is as improbable and mysterious as the existence of
the book itself, and in that sense begging to be included with this
work, so here it is, as a preface.

Keith Hoang introduced himself to me after one of my presentations
at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress in 2017. He had
intended to take another workshop, but for some strange reason,
kept being directed by a security person into mine.

Keith felt inspired to introduce himself to me, described his venture
into writing The Path To Greatness and asked if I could help him
promote it within the Church. He spoke with such conviction and
excitement about its possibility in terms of inter-religious dialogue I
could not help but be interested and agreed to do what I could.
Ultimately, he wanted to meet Pope Francis whom he felt would be
interested in this project.

Upon my return to Canada, I received from Keith a rather unique
(for me) electronic version of the book consisting of a chapter of the
Tao Te Ching text on each page with the related scripture
references on the bottom. That arrangement did not really appeal to