Doubt

Between Sundays: Holy Week And The Importance Of Weekday Christians

Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 04.02.2012

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Rev. Emily C. Heath

To me, the most comforting part of Holy Week is not the waving of triumphal palms on one Sunday morning, or the flowers and joyous hymns on the next. It's what happens in between.

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My Hypocrisy, To Dust?

Kent Annan | Posted 05.27.2012

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Kent Annan

My doubt, it will turn to dust. And so too my faith. Both proved right or wrong in their ways--either because it's all only dust, or because then we will see face to face. My sin, to dust. My hypocrisy, to dust.

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The Point Of Authentic Inquiry

Gangaji | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Self-Inquiry, Religion, Doubt, New Age, Christianity, Buddhism, Spirituality, Self- Discovery, Consciousness, Spiritual Inquiry, Healthy Living News
Gangaji

There is a point that appears in a lifetime, regardless of chronological age, when healthy, true doubt appears. We doubt what we have been taught, and we doubt what others insist we must believe. This is the point at which true spiritual inquiry can begin.

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Losing My Religion: If I'm So Done With Faith, Why Do I Still Feel Its Loss?

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 02.28.2012

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Margaret Wheeler Johnson

I managed to live in New York for two years without it once occurring to me that I had so recently been a believer. Then I was reminded -- at exactly noon on a weekday in the spring of 2007.

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Debates About Agnosticism Are As Old As The Concept Itself

Christopher Lane | Posted 02.20.2012

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Christopher Lane

For science as for religion, the unknowable therefore remains a quandary. It serves as a reminder, Spencer says, of what is "utterly inscrutable" to us and likely to remain so.

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Does Religion Make Your Brain Happy? An Interview With Science Writer David DiSalvo

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 01.21.2012

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Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman

Quite often, what makes us happy and what is actually good for us are directly at odds with each other. What worked for us evolutionarily over the mil...

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The #1 Misconception About Marriage

Sheryl Paul | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Soulmate, Do We Have Enough Chemistry, Engagement Doubt, Engagement Anxiety, Conscious Weddings, Marriage Fear, Marital Doubt, Doubt, Weddings News
Sheryl Paul

When engagement anxiety kicks in full force and causes people to nitpick their fiancé and put his or her every perceived flaw under a microscope, a downward spiral of focusing on what's missing usually begins.

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Writer Wednesday: Ann Patchett On How To Avoid Doubt

Posted 12.12.2011

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Bestselling novelist and essayist Ann Patchett recently wrote "The Getaway Car" (Byliner), "a practical memoir about the agony, ecstasy, and occasiona...

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Searching For The Forbidden Fruit Of The Garden Of Eden

Brook Wilensky-Lanford | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Doubt, Garden of Eden, Apples, Biblical Literalism, Faith, Paradise Lust, Forbidden Fruit, Where Is the Garden of Eden, Searching for Eden, Religious Books, Religion News
Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Having spent the last several years writing a book about people who search for the Garden of Eden on earth, I am a little sensitive about the topic of apples.

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Some Hurts Are More Than Skin Deep

Serita Jakes | Posted 11.06.2011

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Serita Jakes

We often shy away from things that may help us because of what other people may think. You cannot continue to be tormented on the inside, so that you look perfect on the outside.

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10 Years After 9/11, The Question Remains The Same

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.02.2011

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Cathleen Falsani

If I have learned anything in the decade that has passed since terror became a visceral part of our daily reality, it is to be comfortable and satisfied with not knowing.

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A Questioning Faith: Where Is God When We Hurt?

Derek Flood | Posted 10.22.2011

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Derek Flood

God has created us to recognize the injustice and emptiness and long for something more. God did not have to make us this way. God could have made us like fish, but he didn't. Why is that?

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What Does 'God' Mean?

Marilyn Sewell | Posted 08.22.2011

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Marilyn Sewell

When I use the word God, I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. And yet, paradoxically, I've staked everything there -- with this Mystery that I cannot comprehend with my finite mind.

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Disappointed With God

Rev. Peter M. Wallace | Posted 08.16.2011

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Rev. Peter M. Wallace

We all have doubts, and we need to dive into them and feel them and examine them and work through them. Hiding from them or denying them only causes them to fester in our soul.

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What The Bible Really Says About Doubt

Rev. Jonathan Weyer | Posted 07.17.2011

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Rev. Jonathan Weyer

As I read through the biblical discussion of doubt, I realized how much the Bible really does describe reality, especially the reality of the human condition. It calls us to question and to doubt.

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Trifecta Interview: Michael Cuesta Directs Ron Eldard and Jill Hennessy in The Roadie: Queens, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 07.16.2011

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Cynthia Ellis

The adage, "You can't go home again," isn't completely true. You can go home again, but it's going to involve serious heartbreak, a coke binge, multiple altercations, confronting uncomfortable truths and your own mother slapping your just-punched face.

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Doubt Is The Faith That Binds Us Together

Jon M. Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jon M. Sweeney

It is increasingly clear to me that doubt is, in fact, the most important faith of all. Doubt invigorates faith, demands more of it, and causes us to ask more of each other.

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Passing Through Times Of Confusion On The Path To God

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rev. James Martin, S.J.

They may pray from time to time, particularly in dire need, and they may go to services on key holidays. But for this group, finding God is a mystery, a worry or a problem.

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'The Rite': Something To Believe In?

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cathleen Falsani

Faith is powerful, yes, the film posits, but so are the forces of darkness. It's not an easy fight and woe to the man who thinks it is.

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How Do You Pick Up The Pieces After Your Faith Fails?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frank Schaeffer

The journey of faith is a struggle and there is no destination because (I believe) the life of the spirit is real. Therefore we never arrive because the spirit never dies.

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The Big Strange Party

Omar Baddar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Omar Baddar

She opens her eyes, not quite sure where she is, shocked to find herself at a strange party full of strange people. She's overwhelmed by the confusion...

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People Of Faith Should Be Grateful For Doubt

Sister Joan Chittister, OSB | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sister Joan Chittister, OSB

Without doubt, life would simply be a series of packaged assumptions, none of them tested, none of them sure, and all of them belonging not to us, but to someone else whose truth we have made our own.

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They Are Women, Hear Them Roar

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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George Heymont

I was intrigued by Symmetry Theatre's claim that fewer good roles are written for women, I found myself wondering if people might not be aware of the variety of plays that do indeed have meaty roles for female characters.

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Forget Debt, I Hope I Won't Be Graduating in Mountains of Doubt

Ilana Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ilana Ross

College taught me to believe in human potential, but in post-grad adulthood, it's all too common to express doubt in another's ability, and to do so as if it were some sign of wisdom.

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Who Or What Do You Trust?

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

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Anne Naylor

Risking doing something different can build trust; the trust that you are capable of learning new skills -- old dogs can learn new tricks.

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