Deeper

Good thoughts from a guy from Sewanee . . .

This thought has been rattling around in my head for a while now, but i think i’ve finally got enough meat to hang on the bones of an idea to actually form a coherent blog about it. No soap boxes today, folks, i think we’re all safe.

A Faith Challenged is a Faith Deepened

One of the things that happens in seminary is you are handed a ton of stuff to digest, break down, and tear apart, and then you are given the opportunity to try to incorporate these new thoughts into a pre-existing set of beliefs. Its kind of like Jenga, only backwards.

Needless to say, on a day-to-day basis this can get challenging and is at times downright tricky.

About 1000 years ago, when i was neither Episcopalian or Methodist, i was part of a faith tradition, where, on the whole, iwasn’t really encouraged to tear apart my faith. In fact, to question your faith, and God forbid to examine it too closely was often discouraged. When you begin taking a long hard look at the things you’ve…

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