The book is a detailed guide to the ways in which faiths have sought to repress or celebrate as well as codify almost every kind of sexual relationship and act.

Herbert H. Friedman, chief executive of the Gurwin Center, said that the interfaith hospice program "reaffirms the sanctity of each life, and the fact that all faiths, ultimately, seek to ennoble people while they're living and when they're dying."

His backward-looking faith, austere to the bone and stripped of compassion, sought to recreate an era that exists mostly in the imaginations of fundamentalists.

Your faith, someone said, seeks now to save you.

The faith seeks to free its followers from Yama, the god of death, and bestow on them blissful eternal life.

Furthermore, both faiths make a universal claim to truth and seek to convert nonbelievers.

Family was an important aspect of ancient Egyptian life, and as such, the faith does not seek to separate individuals from their families.

Of course, that faith may well seek creedal expression too, though reason best serves the experience, discerning and deepening it.

Many Continuing Anglicans believe that the faith of some churches in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury has become either unorthodox or un-Christian and therefore have not sought to also be in communion with him.

In that role, he tried to increase the organizational focus on its longstanding motto, "faith seeking understanding", and to attract new and younger membership.