doubt – Keeping Faith Today

Unchristian Certainty

I am walking with youth through a unit on Faith and Science. Can you believe in God and science, the Bible and evolution? Can you seek God in what you know as well as what you don’t? I’m finding the matter at hand repeatedly comes back to unfair assumptions about certainty. Certainty has become a valueContinue reading “Unchristian Certainty”

2nd Week of Easter

“Do not persist in your unbelief, but believe!” – John 20.27 Most of us doubt at times in our lives. We doubt faith matters or can change the world. We sometimes doubt that we ourselves, or people we love, or religious institutions can respond to the renewing Spirit. Identify a specific doubt you carry. AskContinue reading “2nd Week of Easter”

Bernard Lonergan on faith

All you folks who lament not believing anymore, theologian Bernard Lonergan, SJ, points out: “The opposite of faith is not doubt but certainty.”