HUMILITY IN TIMES OF (CULTURE) WAR
Can one write about humility without being just a bit proud if it comes out sounding profound, well-expressed and, well, humble? Let me give it a try. Humility is one of the most attractive and...
View ArticleObjections to Faith—No, No, a Thousand Times No!
This is a “help the author” post. Working on my in-progress book The Skeptical Believer this week, I have created the following very tentative and incomplete list of categories of objections to...
View ArticleQuestions Do Not Hurt God’s Feelings
Here is another snippet from the work-in-progress, The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist: You don’t have to worry about hurting God’s feelings—at least not with your questions...
View ArticleWords for Making Sense of It All
(The next few posts will be from my book-in-progress The Skeptical Believer. Each will be a digestible excerpt from a section exploring how we make meaning for ourselves.) “We use what we call reason...
View ArticleMore on Making Sense
(This is a continuation of the last post on “meaning making” from the work-in-progress The Skeptical Believer. See last post.) The messiness of sense-making has certain implications for any...
View ArticleThe Church—Doing This Together
“I open the book which the strange, difficult, beautiful church has given me . . . .” Mary Oliver I once read that when Karl Barth taught, he would write all morning and then read to a class in the...
View ArticleToo Skeptical? Or Not Skeptical Enough?
Skeptics are used to being accused of being too skeptical, even cynical. Many actually hear the charge with a touch of satisfaction (“No one’s going to pull the wool over my eyes!”). But in my view we...
View ArticleFaith as Fiction
I am in my home town–Santa Barbara, California–these last three weeks of January. Trying to write, sometimes with a warm sun on my back. Following is what I wrote the day before yesterday. Another...
View ArticleFAITH AND SUSPENSE: LIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORY
[Following is another excerpt from a book I’m finishing up, The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist. (It will be available in January and I’ll probably post if for free on this...
View ArticleThe Skeptical Believer Lives!
I am happy to announce that the book I have been using as an excuse for not doing any profitable work the last few years is now available. The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist...
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