The God Who Dwells in Doubt | SAPIR Journal
what religion brings us is not a dogma but a practice. That’s the rich thing it brings us. That’s the significant thing that it brings us, and that the idea of having a spiritual practice is one that’s completely compatible with the idea of being extremely skeptical of dogma; that those two things are not at war. They may be in tension, the way so ... See more
Adam Gopnik • Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith | The On Being Project
When God seems distant in the midst of crises and pain, we can pray the psalms of lament. As we follow the pattern of the lament—from doubts and despair to prayer and petition—we eventually arrive at a place of hope, trust and praise.
David T. Lamb • God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?
that's why I think of myself as a person of faith and why my mantra is, I don't know. Because to presume to know, to presume that I can order the universe or understand all of the powers at play, or that I understand or know or can predict with absolute accuracy, everything that's going to happen or that we live in some sort of mechanic, materialis... See more
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
Does God communicate to us at all? Does God “speak” to us through nature? Did God give us a Book to guide us? Are the words in that Book God’s or ours? What is the relationship between the Book we now possess and the content God wants us to possess? Does God speak to us now? Is God’s communication limited to the Book, or are there other venues as w
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