Room For Doubt
Over the years, I've been pretty open about my struggles with doubt as it relates to my faith. One of those times came a couple of years ago after the horrific tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School--when a crazed gunman callously executed little children. After that happened, I had a dark moment or two about what God was up to, if God was up to anything at all. I realized after Sandy Hook that all of the things I had been programmed by Christian culture to say were pretty useless and trite. In the end, I had to dive to the bottom of my doubt during that dark time in order to find some ground to push off of in order to return to the surface. I once had a church member meet with me to share his numerous concerns about some of my recent sermon topics. In particular, he took umbrage over my openness when it comes to my struggles with doubt. "You shouldn't teach people that it's okay to doubt," he chided me. "You should...