Edward Berger didn’t grow up Catholic. “I was raised outside the church, but if we went, it would be the Protestant Church,” he says over the phone. But when he was 9, he attended a Catholic Mass with ...

In short, people of faith often grapple with doubt. Seven strategies for dealing with doubt have helped sustain me and many ...

A misspent childhood watching Saturday morning cartoons has left an image indelibly imprinted on my memory: a character is in conflict between doing right or wrong, prodded to do good by a tiny angel ...

Some in our churches live in the borderlands between committed faith and disbelief. Yearners show up in several of the above categories, but they are a demographic unto themselves. Yearners are not ...

With all the animosity and arguments currently tearing at our country, are Americans increasingly confused about fundamental questions of faith? Recent figures gathered for the authoritative General ...

Dawn Tripp is the author of Moon Tide and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction for 2006. Her third novel, Game of Secrets, will be published by Random House in ...

What if doubt isn’t the enemy of faith but the beginning of deeper belief? On this episode of Being Human, Steve Cuss explores spiritual deconstruction and the way writers like Frederick Buechner and ...

Watch empathetically and with an open heart. This was the general message of the opening remarks on the opening night of Theatre Intime’s first show of the semester “The Harvest” — originally written ...

In August of 1993, I stood in a conference room of a local Salt Lake City hotel listening to a passionate and angry speech by a local bankruptcy lawyer and family man—Paul James Toscano—criticizing ...

As a missionary for five years in Ethiopia, then minister at a large church in Southern California for 11, I’ve been keenly aware of people’s need for certainty — spiritual, personal, political, ...