What is REM?
Religious Ethical Mediation™ is a consciousness, a worldview, a way of living.
REM is a practice of ethics as an intercultural encounter that engenders a process for living into tensions (tensions of ambiguity, complexity, perplexity, fear, or ignorance of the other conflicts). Those tensions become opportunities, rather than barriers, for creative ethical responses and engagement to emerge.
Dr. Marcia Riggs discusses how Religious Ethical Mediation can become a model for citizenship:
Beloved community is not an ideal end; active citizens of a beloved community live into the tensions of conflicting interpretations of the ever-evolving intracultural, intercultural, multicultural, multiconfessional and multireligious realities of the twenty-first century.
Why REM?
Religious - All of us have something that gives our lives ultimate meaning and from which our values derive.
Ethical - Our values for living and visions for life, describe and prescribe (consciously and unconsciously) what we say and do as individuals and as communities and institutions in society.
Mediation - Sometimes the differing sources of the ultimate meaning of our lives and from which our values derive, lead us into conflict with others.
