One feature of religious identification is the strength with which it is held. For some, the faith is so central to their identity they cannot think of themselves aside from their religion. They are what I call dogmatists. They cannot think of their religion except as the one and only true religion. Only their religion can put humans right with the divine. On the other hand, the contemporary cultural upheaval that results from more frequent contact among people with very different perspectives, values, and practices sometimes leads to a too broad acceptance of difference: “I’m right, and if we disagree, you’re right too, from your point of view,” which I call “relativism.” My interest is in finding a way between dogmatism and relativism, in finding a third way to understand and even embrace religion, a way that avoids the problems of both dogmatism and relativism.