God doesn’t fear our questions, and neither should we. But those questions should lead to studying, our studying to pondering, and then our pondering to prayer.
Read More »Religiosity belongs in a unique category
Like stories, like music, like theater, like love, faith operates in that realm of experience that refuses to be measured, weighed, or proven.
Read More »Arguments why God (very probably) exists
Does God exist? Michael Peligro, CC BY-ND Robert H. Nelson, University of Maryland Note from Editor of The Conversation US: This is a revised version of the original piece. We have done so to make explicit the author’s expertise with regard to the subject of this article. We have also …
Read More »Dear exhausted Evangelical
The end of the story is that I escaped my mental jail cell without losing my faith. But it wasn’t immediate or simple. It was a complicated process that involved trauma, unconventional theology classes, and listening to the unexpected, still, small voice of the Holy Spirit.
Read More »The Jesus Prayer in practice
By reciting the words, “Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner,” I am taken deeper in my connection with the Master of the Universe; I enter into the place of God through Christ Jesus, and find the God of love.
Read More »Faith in the Streets: a Civics Lesson
Would MLK Jr. have joined in the shouts of "save our health care" at Monday's rally? Would Jesus? Are those the right questions to ask?
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