It feels a little unusual to write this post, knowing it will be the last one here for a while. I’ve been at this long enough to sense when it’s time to pause, to step back for breath. In recent Read More …

In my last post, I began to trace the ways my understanding of belief has shifted over the years. I focused especially on how I now see the relationship between belief and the will. For a long time, I assumed Read More …

Given everything I have explored so far, and the recurring theme of my earlier struggles with belief that runs through it all, a natural question arises. Why was it, and in some ways still is, so difficult for me to Read More …

A few posts back, I shared the view of faith that shaped my life for many years, the one that eventually became a source of struggle. In that view, faith was almost entirely bound up with “belief,” and belief meant Read More …

It took a long time to admit, but the way I once imagined faith was far too narrow for the kind of life it was meant to hold. For so long, I thought faith was about belief – about collecting Read More …

In my last post, I began exploring other ways of seeing faith besides the familiar lens of belief. These alternative perspectives were not only crucial in helping me endure my own crisis of faith, they have continued to reshape how Read More …

Having spent much of my focus so far describing how I once understood the nature of faith – primarily as “believing the right things” – and exploring some of the historical insights I’ve since learned about that framework, I now Read More …

In my last post, I sketched the outlines of two great turning points in Western history – the Reformation and the Enlightenment – and how they quietly but profoundly reshaped the way faith has been understood ever since. I didn’t Read More …

Although I’ve already explained in broad terms how I once understood faith, I think it’s worth spending more time looking at it in detail. I don’t just want to describe the basic form it took in my life but also Read More …

As I’ve mentioned a few times already in some of my previous posts, although there were several areas I once struggled with and which eventually led up to my crisis of faith, the one area I struggled with more than Read More …