Modern ‘Technoculture’ Makes the World Feel Unnaturally Godless
In his 1996 novel, In the Beauty of the Lilies, John Updike has a fictional Reformed Presbyterian minister feel his faith abandon him like an exhale, leaving his “habitual mental contortions decisively relaxed.” For this minister, the experience was one of relief, “an immense strain of justification” lifted “at a blow.” Unbelief, in this sense, Read more…
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God at the Bottom of the Glass
As a child I had no formal religious training. My parents were not opposed to faith, but they did not find it particularly relevant to daily life. At age five, I was sent to a local Episcopal church to sing in the boys’ choir so that I could learn music. I learned to love the Read more…
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Some of Christianity’s Biggest Skeptics Are Becoming Vocal Converts
A half century ago, Christianity Today printed an editorial titled “The New Christians,” which followed a movement known as the Jesus Revolution. These young “counter-culture converts,” as the article dubbed them, held emotionally charged notions of the Christian experience. Yet despite the positive vibes associated with this emerging band of new believers, the editorial noted Read more…
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Meet the ‘Precocious Atheist’ Still Pining for a Misplaced Faith
Donna Freitas’s spiritual autobiography, Wishful Thinking: How I Lost My Faith and Why I Want to Find It, stands in the tradition of the “dark-night-of-the-soul” memoir. But unlike mystics such as St. John of the Cross, who found their way through dark times into the light of faith, Freitas is unsure whether she ever believed Read more…
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