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Archive: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006
The Gift of Perspective
A religion that thrives in an atmosphere of shared knowledge deserves to thrive; a religion that depends on enforced ignorance deserves to go extinct.
By Daniel C. Dennett | December 8, 2006; 12:38 PM ET | Comments (77)
Parents Need to Get A Life, I Mean A Spiritual Life
Be honest if you don’t know much about God. Don’t yield to the pressure of the season and say or do things you don’t mean. You might even read a book together
By William Tully | December 8, 2006; 11:50 AM ET | Comments (22)
Different Religions Like Different Paths Through the Forest
"Can you think of a place that you love, a special, beautiful place, where you feel wild and free, loved and loving, and safe and happy all at once? Being in that place is being connected to the Goddess, the living being that we are all a part of."
By Starhawk | December 7, 2006; 3:45 PM ET | Comments (64)
Conveying That Faith Is A Most Ordinary Thing
I am currently and unabashedly trying to make my children creatures of religious habit
By Jon Meacham | December 7, 2006; 11:54 AM ET | Comments (93)
Doubt: The Perfect Gift
My mom, who was a practicing Catholic, simply replied "I don't know" when I asked why God would put a child in an iron lung. She was honest--and more power to her.
By Susan Jacoby | December 7, 2006; 11:25 AM ET | Comments (174)
A Parent's Gift To A Child: Speaking of God
n my Latter-day Saint faith, the responsibility upon parents to teach their children principles of the gospel is scripturally mandated
By Michael Otterson | December 7, 2006; 11:15 AM ET | Comments (40)
What My Son Taught Me About God
My son Quinn, 24, believes in God. I did not know this until yesterday when I talked with him for this essay....
By Sally Quinn | December 7, 2006; 10:51 AM ET | Comments (109)
Joined At The Heart
Children should be helped to understand that love produces unity
By William J. Byron | December 6, 2006; 5:54 PM ET | Comments (0)
Don't Tell Them Anything They'll Need to Unlearn
The Bible and other sacred scriptures are not fairy tales – but we make a mistake when we think that stories must be factually true in order to be true and truthful
By Marcus Borg | December 6, 2006; 5:40 PM ET | Comments (104)
Say Something!
If you don’t talk with your children about religion, they will assume it doesn’t mean anything to you
By Stephen Prothero | December 6, 2006; 5:15 PM ET | Comments (244)
Parents Should Share Doubts As Well as Beliefs
It would help if they were prepared to talk to their children about their doubts as well as their faith, about the fact that we all worship the same God
By Julia Neuberger | December 6, 2006; 4:30 PM ET | Comments (6)
God Is Within, the Sufi Poet Wrote
My advice to people who are seeking God is to look within their own hearts
By Salman Ahmad | December 6, 2006; 2:43 PM ET | Comments (75)
You Can't Go Wrong with 'God is Love'.
This holiday season, give this gift to your children and to yourself: You are loved, unconditionally. Believe me when I tell you that everything else in religion is commentary.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | December 6, 2006; 11:43 AM ET | Comments (23)
Are We Hard-Wired for God?
We are hard-wired to name the transcendental meaning by which we commit ourselves to live human lives in the certainty of human death
By John Dominic Crossan | December 6, 2006; 11:41 AM ET | Comments (68)
Trust The Child
The point of it all in the child's world is to let the love which the faiths profess be experienced by the way in which parents and siblings relate to each other when they talk about God
By Martin Marty | December 6, 2006; 11:40 AM ET | Comments (3)
