Sometimes wrestling with a difficult life situation involving moral questions helps us mature, spiritually and emotionally. If we give our moral agency over to the Morality Police we’re asking to never grow up.

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If we define faith as trust or confidence in God, as many of the great Christian theologians defined it, then fear of God is the opposite of faith even in Christian terms.

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For the record —spiritual is from the Latin spiritus, which refers to breath and life. Early Christians were the first to use spiritus to mean “soul.” The use of spirit to refer to ghosts or other supernatural beings began in the 14th century.

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Religion is a living process, and it will mature as you mature. If you are 50 and your religion is the same to you now that it was when you were 20, you’re not doing it right.

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In many religious traditions beliefs are a vehicle, not a destination. In some religious traditions beliefs aren’t even the vehicle, but more like training wheels.

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My working definition of religion is that it’s a discipline or practice —not just a belief system —that enables one to experience, be at one with, or otherwise re-connect to an intangible something greater than the limited self.

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