Christian Wiman, from his book My Bright Abyss: “On the radio I hear a famous novelist praising his father for enduring a long, difficult dying without ever ‘seeking relief in religion.’ It is clear from the son’s description that the father was in absolute despair, and that as those cold waters closed over him he […]
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Kingship
Imagine you’re a king, riding your majestic white steed through the forest. You stop in a little village for water and are served by a humble village girl. She enchants you. You speak with her and find that you’re falling in love with her. But now you’ve got a problem. She can’t really love you in […]
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Here are two diverging ideas of what faith is. No Evidence One is the notion that faith is belief in something without any evidence to support it. This is the stance taken by most atheist materialists: that faith is merely childish acceptance of something as being true without demanding that it actually be true, or that […]
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