Keller's column, «Asking Candidates
Tougher Questions About Faith,» argues that the crop of candidates competing for the White House next year should be grilled on their religious beliefs and on how those beliefs inform their political views.
Keller should have stopped a couple of weeks early, before he wrote the disaster titled, «Asking Candidates
Tougher Questions About Faith.»
Which includes asking
the tough questions about faith / God that I used to stuff.
I think critically, challenge authority, and ask
tough questions about my faith.
It's always encouraging to be in conversation with other people who wrestle with
tough questions about their faith.
Many of us who have wrestled with
tough questions about our faith share a favorite quote from Rainer Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet:
[If you've read Evolving in Monkey Town, you know these are the very questions I struggled with when I first began asking
tough questions about my faith.]
«Religious and spiritual struggles — conflicts with God or religious people,
tough questions about faith, morality, and the meaning of life — these are often taboo topics, and the temptation to push them away is strong,» said Julie Exline, professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve and co-author of the research.
Not exact matches
In the letter, the two also make a good
faith effort to answer what they say are the 10
toughest questions they get asked
about their philanthropy.
Catherine Newhouse writes a blog for RELEVANT
about the need for Christians to respond positively to
tough questions in order to make our
faith big enough for challenges.
I talk
about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for
faith communities in which they are safe asking
tough questions and wrestling with doubt.
The series may be a ratings giant, but if HBO's goal was to force the audience to ask
tough questions about the Catholic
faith, it's one big miss.
I've especially enjoyed hearing from those of you who have wrestled with doubts
about your
faith, asked
tough questions, and travelled similar paths on your
faith journeys.