Reading Through a Crisis of Faith
Many people happily make their way through the stages of spiritual development within a faith tradition until one day they hit a question or life situation that challenges everything they believe.
For Christians this is often one of the following: the scale of pain and suffering in the world; the contradictions in the Bible and biblical criticism; evolution and science; the role of women in the church; or some other crisis of faith.
Most of us admit the limitation of our tradition and either try ...more
For Christians this is often one of the following: the scale of pain and suffering in the world; the contradictions in the Bible and biblical criticism; evolution and science; the role of women in the church; or some other crisis of faith.
Most of us admit the limitation of our tradition and either try ...more
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What happened after your crisis of faith?
I returned to my faith with my crisis unresolved.
I returned to my faith but a more liberal branch of it.
I left my faith and found meaning in other ways.
I left my faith and feel lost and alone.
I'm now spiritual but not religious.
I'm just living with the crisis for now.
I find the questions more important than finding answers now.
My crisis strengthened my faith and moved me to a deeper level.
I joined another faith.
I left my faith and find other things make my life meaningful now, like humanism, or philosophy.
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