I haven't been to church in four years. I don't miss Sundays. I don't miss the politics. I don't miss pretending.
But this morning I was making coffee and I caught myself humming Be Thou My Vision and it undid me for tw...
I've been asked this three times in the last month — by a Jesuit I respect, a Zen teacher I respect, and my own wife.
All three answered differently. All three were kind about it.
I can't tell whether that's comforting...
My closest friend is an Orthodox rabbi. I'm an agnostic.
We disagree about everything a philosophy seminar would argue about. Metaphysics, epistemology, whatever.
And yet when we talk about what it actually means to li...
