“True Religion,” Part II (Perceiving God’s Presence)
In the promos for the TV series, “The Story of God,” Morgan Freeman asks, “What happens when someone sees, or feels, the presence of God?” For people for whom the ...
Fanaticism not “True Religion”
One night during Hanukkah this year, two Jewish children disappeared from their home about two hours northwest of New York City, according to a story in the New York Times. ...
Accounting for Beauty
I’m not among believers who deny evolution. To me, it’s a rational and elegant explanation for how the universe came to be. And neither I nor my church sees a ...
Hard to Talk, or Write, About God
“It’s Getting Harder to Talk about God,” declares a recent opinion piece in the New York Times. Author Jonathan Merritt, who describes himself as “the son of a prominent megachurch ...
Faith Painfully Tested
The scene is Poland, winter of 1945. Just as Poles are sighing in relief that the Nazi death camps have been liberated and the Nazis vanquished, the country is occupied ...
Why Go to Church?
In writing these blogs, I often ask the rhetorical question, “What’s the point?” about a specific issue. But you could ask that about the blog itself. Why write a blog ...