Tag: faith

I knew someone I could put all my faith and trust in and He would sail me through this new, hard phase of my life.

Part of me – or let me risk being presumptuous here and say: part of us – wants to distance ourselves from faith because so many screwed-up and hateful things have been done in the name of God.

Most days I catch the whitefish, Too common to satisfy me While most rainbow trout we find Too small to not set free

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.

Like stories, like music, like theater, like love, faith operates in that realm of experience that refuses to be measured, weighed, or proven.

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...

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.