Is Doubt the Enemy of Faith?
Doubt gets a bad rap. We live in a world where we are not supposed to doubt, it is unhealthy—bad. Doubts, though, are like confrontations, which also have a bad […]
Tag Archives: doubt
I’m Biased (And So Are You)
Confirmation bias: the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities —— […]
Here for Good
Believe it or not, for someone of faith I am something of a cynic. I recoil at a lot of what gets passed as ‘Christian,’ am nervous in large congregations, […]
“What if you’re wrong?”
A girl asked atheist Richard Dawkins one day, “What if you’re wrong?” In typical deprecating fashion, Dawkins turned the question back to the girl, “But what if you are wrong?” […]
Hope for the mixed-motived
What do you want? You get what you want, often. Proponents of positive thinking would claim that you get what you want always, although unrequited loves and unwon lottery tickets […]
Atheist honesty
John Gray has provided a refreshing critique of contemporary atheism in a recent essay for The Guardian entitled What scares the new atheists. His lucid analysis has struck me mostly […]
Hearing the Silence
Despite all our highly rational arguments for or against God’s existence, a lot of the time, the issues are far simpler – more an experience than a theory. That experience […]
Something New
The story of Christmas is little more than one enormous fiction. So I was grimly informed in a recent conversation. Emmanuel, “God with us,” the “humble king” and all that—just […]
Becoming an Eleutherotist
Wondering Fair began over two years ago. It seems a good time to remind our readers (old, and new), and ourselves, of our purpose. Having said that, this article isn’t […]
Vested Interests
The question of God is not a theoretical exercise; it spurts from our guts as well as from our minds.
Wondering Fair 