Orthodox Paradox

In yesterday's New York Times Magazine, Noah Feldman has a wonderful essay about identity, belonging, and community.  His starting point is his own experience being excluded from the official newsletters -- even erased from the photographs -- of the yeshiva day school he attended for twelve years because he married someone who is not Jewish.  I have not experienced that sort of exclusion, but he did capture some of the disorientation I feel as an evangelical-turned-Catholic, a feeling that I don't completely escape in the evangelical or Catholic circles in which I now operate, I confess.  Feldman writes: "It is more than a little strange, feeling fully engaged with a way of seeing the world but also, at the same time, feeling so far from it."  You can (and should) read the whole essay here.