Monday, May 22, 2006

Faith

take a leap of faith
believe and you will be saved
reject and be damned
Today's Poem: A Haiku


Today's inspiration: I just finished Letters from a Skeptic, a conversation between a seventy-year-old father and his theologian son regarding the father's questions and doubts about the Christian faith. Unlike many of the religion teachers in my thirteen years of Catholic schooling, Edward Boyd (the son) offers many intellectual arguments and insights about God, Jesus, and the Bible, and he delivers his thoughts with hope and passion. The book has answered many of my questions, and after reading it, I find myself more open and more excited about the Christianity.

I would recommend this book to anyone who's Christian or skeptical about Christianity; it's perhaps the best religious/theological book that I've read. I would bet that if all my religious teachers had been as capable as Boyd, I would already be a Christian.