Faith: Our Sixth Sense

Faith has the curious characteristic of not requiring all the difficult questions in life to be answered. The reason is that faith itself is the answer to the question that lesser questions seek. Continue reading “Faith: Our Sixth Sense”

Faith in the Face of Suffering

I have a brother who says he would like to believe in God but cannot understand how a loving God would allow there to be suffering in the world. I have never asked him what suffering in particular he is referring to. It could be any of a number I suppose, but I suspect his objection might pertain to the one sister we lost to cancer several years back, or the brother we lost to a motorcycle accident several years before that. Continue reading “Faith in the Face of Suffering”