Naoi Meadow Way

The Naoi Meadow Way is a life-style based on the values
and ethics of Jesus, that gentle soul from Nazareth.

I founded NM in 2001 as a way of co-traveling with the Christian faiths I most admired without having to blindly sign onto the full body of their respective doctrines, theories and teachings.

NM arose out of my life-long search for a nice Jesus-inspired approach to religion which would embrace the beautiful traditions, symbols, holidays, and rituals of the mainstream Euro-American Catholic, Protestant and LDS churches that I knew and loved as a child, proudly and meticulously putting together our 7th grade Sunday School newsletter; yet one which would steer clear of the dogmatic myopia and political extremism that has come to define so many of the foremost churches in the western world today, especially in the U.S.

Along the way I became ordained as a minister and have spent quite a few years studying Biblical history. My biggest struggle, however, has been in trying to understand why so few practicing Christians even vaguely resemble Jesus as I always perceived him to be, and why they seem to ignore, or even shun, the things that could make this world a better place: love, nature, peace, beauty and respect for all life. If the Buddhists and people of other ancient religions hold these things dear to heart, I asked myself, why don't Christians?

I concluded that much of it has to do with a misguided interpretation of Jesus' basic message by some of his earliest followers, the result being the invention of a religion that places too much concentration on worshipping the Godhead figure "Christ" in search of his shortcut to heaven, and too little on the simple teachings of the humble itinerant rabbi known as Jesus. I could see no reason why I had to plod blindly along on their pathway when my wisdom suggested that it was not the pathway our shepherd Jesus himself would choose for his flock. So I began blazing a new one that would work for me. And thus was born the Naoi Meadow Way and its tiny localized congregation, the Chapel in the Meadow.

NM is simply my way of taking a somewhat retro approach to being "Christian", turning back the clock a century or two, kicking aside the chaos and techology-obsessed corruption of modern society, and learning to live what I affectionately call "The Right Life", an approach, my faith tells me, is one the man Jesus would condone and appreciate.

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