The Sacred and the Space in Between

When this post was nom­i­nated, we wanted to be care­ful. We have noth­ing against reli­gion, how­ever as Jimmy Buf­fett once sang in his song Fruit­cakes, “Reli­gion is in the hands of some crazy-ass peo­ple”. But some­thing hap­pened while we read the post and got to know this blog called The Sacred and the Space in Between. This blog­ger, Siroj Sora­j­jack­ool is involved in some extremely impor­tant and self sac­ri­fic­ing work. He is work­ing incred­i­bly hard to stop child pros­ti­tu­tion. He writes of his work and of his blog, “My name is Siroj Sora­j­jakool. I was born and raised in Bangkok, Thai­land and was priv­iledged to pur­sue my under­grad­u­ate in Sin­ga­pore, my grad­u­ate degree in reli­gion from India, and my doc­tor­ate in Cal­i­for­nia. I have one son, one wife, and I believe in one God…One bur­den that weighs heav­ily on me is the issue of poverty and chil­dren who are at-risk for sex traf­fick­ing and pros­ti­tu­tion. I hope to be able to touch some lives while I am still breath­ing.” His post of August 8, 2007 is titled Between Heaven and Earth: Reflec­tion on Mar­riage and Fam­ily. You may not agree with all of his views. We do not. But The Ris­ing Blog­ger found his writ­ing inspired and his work so impor­tant, that we are very pleased to award Siroj’s post our Post of the Day!

Review writ­ten by BUD WEISER.