Some of my grandparents were Quakers, some Episcopalians; some were intensely religious and regular churchgoers, while others were not. My father was the finest example of […]
Occasionally in old speech notes I find a few persistent threads of ideas which I still use. Are these beliefs, or are they merely a crystallization of past preaching? One of those ideas seems to me a basic premise of...
I believe, first and foremost, in the Kingdom of God and the necessity of being attuned to God’s plan, in order to live a successful life. This belief, coupled with obedience to the Golden Rule, would suffice for all of...
What is belief? We have opinions about many things. But I am assuming that we are here concerned with a central faith, a way of thinking, which is the focal point and mainspring of everything else. Such a trend of...
I’d like to begin with the things I don’t believe. I don’t believe in the accidental theories of creation and evolution. I can’t believe that a couple of atoms accidentally bumping into each other billions of years ago, and a...
When I was 8 years old, my mother took me with her when she went to visit a crippled friend. Her friend was so horribly deformed that my first feeling was almost of recoil, my next of pity. Entirely helpless,...
My religion, if I have one, is of the profoundest humility. It can be resolved into the few words: I simply do not know. Who am I to pretend to know? I am less than a speck of dust on...
Being a physicist, I believe that atoms and their constituent electrons, neutrons, and protons are realities in the scientific world of physics. As one reared in the Christian tradition, I also believe that God and the human soul are realities...
Early in life, I became a Roman Catholic—so that it would be more relevant to devote a few minutes ahead to explaining how I came to this belief and how it works out in terms of experience, than to paraphrasing...
