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Without Faith
I was speaking yesterday with a man whose family has suffered a number of close bereavements. Toward the end of the conversation, he said “for people without faith, I don’t know how they would get through this”. In this, he echoed the very same sentiment which a friend of mine has verbalised to me on a few occasions. Faith is a curious thing. It does not protect us from experiencing the trials and tribulations of life, but it does give us a very particular prism through which we both see and approach those moments which come to every single one of us. Christ did not promise that faith in Him…
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In Search Of The Spiritual
Edwin Hubble, for whom the space telescope was named, once said that we don’t know why we are born but we can find out about the world into which we were born. This quest to discover more about our world reflects something of our innate desire to learn more about ourselves and our place within this world. The quest finds it’s expression in various fields – but perhaps most notably in science and in religion. Visiting the British Museum in London some months ago, I was struck by how many of the pieces on display seemed to make reference to the religious or spiritual side of life, holding particular meaning…
