When an erstwhile friend asked why I celebrated religious holidays when I didn't believe I was deeply insulted.  That person has not since been invited to celebrate my table and give praise.

sad non sense - the whole thing. "professing to be wise, they gave become fools." All his beliefs, nevermind the rethoric and vocabulary, when you dismiss God's truth and imagine yourself an intellectual. "Fear of the Lord is beginning of wisdom."  True Christianity is not a religion, but relationship with God and partaking of His salvation in Christ. obviously dogma is the key - the practice, life,flows from it. 

Love this- how powerful it can be to look at old texts and discussions, and build on them with our modern understandings and questions. And that this doesn't have conflict with whether you believe in a higher power, or are atheist; either way, this is a beautiful way of further defining values based off of the writings of past generations.

Speak the truth please! i love it ! Thanks!

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/adam-gopnik-practicing-doubt-redrawing-faith/8087

Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

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