I know we have spent a lot of time
talking about doubt here, and I promise to take a break from the subject over the next few weeks.
While the religious often claim that doubt is normal and
thinking about your doubt only makes faith stronger, his schools, employers, and family clearly don't meant that.
As I prepared for my talk, I struggled to know exactly what to say to a group of seventeen and eighteen - year -
olds about doubt.
All of this points to what I hope is a trend toward talking more
openly about doubt and acknowledging the vital role it can play in shaping our faith.
The conversation that followed his post made me realize that perhaps I need to be clearer about what I mean when I
talk about doubt.
I knew that writing openly
about my doubts about Christianity would invite questions about whether I had any business doing so in light of believers whose faith might be upset by them.
This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for
writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.
The Arsenal boss has already spoken
about the doubts over Welbeck's ability to play two games in quick succession so can Hodgson and England rescue this potential Arsenal striker crisis?
Oh, and while we're on the subject, check out a great
post about doubt and faith on Kathy Escobar's blog, and the fantastic new Web site devoted to Anne Jackson's very cool «Permission to Speak Freely» project.
As for the Christian imperative to share the gospel, Vine say it's often «better to be kind than to be right» and that in his experience being
honest about our doubts is more authentic to others than cast - iron certainty.
In fact I find your journey to be a fascinating one, especially because you have been brave enough to
speak about your doubts and concerns, even knowing that it would alienate some people who you know on a personal level.
The
narrative about doubting Thomas is technically not a sign, for Thomas is only asked to believe the evidence of his eyes (Jn 20, 29).
It takes place in a rural church with a pastor sermonizing
about doubting Thomas and faith and those who believe without seeing.
Great love lyric: I may not always love you / But long as there are stars above you / You never need to doubt it / I'll make you so sure about it
«By the end of the year many of those factors will be clear,» he
said about doubts over whether the bank will be able to deliver enduring profitability and the impact of new regulations.
In fact, I suspect that over the next 50 years, we will hear a lot
more about doubt, as many of our brothers and sisters struggle to make sense of all this new information.
I'd love to
hear about the doubts and confusion you might have felt at first, about learning something that is completely different to the way our culture deals with children's upsets.
He encourages not only a safe
discussion about my doubts and questions, but also establishes an atmosphere where I can be myself, let loose and even make new friends with the other students.
I write
candidly about doubts about Christianity and my frustrations with current expressions of evangelicalism.
However, as I've grown more
vocal about my doubts and questions concerning evangelical Christianity, I've come to understand some things.
Commenting about the doubts Mother Teresa experienced, Gumpel asked, «Do not these researchers understand that periods of doubt, and even severe trials of faith, have affected some of the Church's greatest saints — St. John of the Cross, Therese of Lisieux — and that persevering and overcoming them is considered one of the signs of sanctity?»
there is actually lots of scripture to speak to this subject... kind of doubting based on some of your comments that you have actaully read or cared to read about it
I have no doubt that we will meet in Glory and have a laugh about this
In this passage, James is talking
about doubt in the context of praying for wisdom, in the context of action.
I've honestly had readers tell me that they'd love to read my book, but worry about what their friends or family might think when they see them reading a
book about doubt.
Maybe the people who feel
guilty about doubting Jesus will displace their anger at themselves against any skeptic that raises the possibility and causes the doubts to resurface.
Trump said that news outlets have
lied about him doubting the intelligence community «when in fact I am a big fan,» as a top aide rejected a published report that the president - elect is planning to overhaul a top U.S. spy agency.