by Bishop Bill Gohl
This is for an especially important-to-me student I met at RoadTrip, "Kris," who’s struggling to hang on to this faith we share.
Many of us are afraid to say that we think about or wonder about such things - that we have questions or doubts about our faith. We’re afraid that we might be judged as not trusting God enough – or that we are somehow "less than" Christians when we doubt. Which is tragic, because there is often more faith in our doubts and questions than in our blind acceptance. And the truth is that some of the most devout and genuine people of faith I know have experienced some variation on this struggle: is there a God, why do bad things happen, does God care?